Transregional and transnational families in Europe and beyond : experiences since the middle ages / edited by Christopher H. Johnson, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, and Francesca Trivellato.

"This book, centered largely on the European experience of families scattered geographically, challenges the dominant narratives of modernization by offering a long-term perspective from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century"--Publisher

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Contributors: Johnson, Christopher H. (Editor), Sabean, David Warren (Editor), Teuscher, Simon (Editor), Trivellato, Francesca, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : rethinking European kinship : transregional and transnational families / David Warren Sabean and Simon Teuscher
  • The historical emergence and massification of international families in Europe and its diaspora / Jose C. Moya
  • The medieval and early modern experience
  • Mamluk and Ottoman political households : an alternative model of "kinship" and 'family' / Gabriel Piterberg
  • From local signori to European high nobility : the Gonzaga family networks in the fifteenth century / Christina Antenhofer
  • Property regimes and migration of patrician families in western Europe around 1500 / Simon Teuscher
  • Trans-dynasticism at the dawn of the modern era : kinship dynamics among ruling families / Michaela Hohkamp
  • Marriage, commercial capital, and business agency : transregional Sephardic (and Armenian) families in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Mediterranean / Francesca Trivellato
  • Those in between : princely families on the margins of the great powers : the Franco-German frontier, 1477-1830 / Jonathan Spangler
  • Spiritual kinship : the Moravians as an international fellowship of brothers and sisters (1730s-1830s) / Gisele Mettele
  • Modernity
  • Families of empires and nations : Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the world around it (1669-1856) / Christine Philliou
  • Into the world : kinship and nation-building in France, 1750-1885 / Christopher H. Johnson
  • German international families in the nineteenth century : the Siemens
  • Family as a thought experiment / David Warren Sabean
  • The culture of Caribbean migration to Britain in the 1950s / Mary
  • Chamberlain
  • Exile, familial ideology, and gender roles in Palestinian camps in Jordan since 1948 / Stephanie Latte Abdallah
  • Mirror image of family relations : social links between patel migrants in Britain and India / Mario Rutten and Pravin J. Patel.