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

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Johnson, Christopher H.
• EBSCOhost.
• Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ethnicity.
• Kinship.
• History.
• Intergenerational relations.
• Europe--Social life and customs.
• Europe.
• Manners and customs.
• Families--Europe.
• Families.
• Intergenerational relations--Europe.
• Kinship--Europe--History.
• Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 362 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The third in a series of volumes built upon investigating the role of kinship in European history from the medieval era to the present, this collection of 14 papers--edited by Johnson (emeritus, history, Wayne State U., US), Sabean (German history, U. of California at Los Angeles, US), Teuscher (medieval history, U. of Zurich, Switzerland), and Trivellato (history, Yale U., US)--explores the role of transregional and transnational families in the development of European society (primarily) and elsewhere. The papers set history in conversation with anthropology by drawing on European ethnographic work on how patrimony disciplines the members of families. Specific topics include the role of the Siemens family in building a transnational industrial enterprise, the development of primogeniture in a high noble ruling family of Italy, elite political "households" in military patronage states, kinship tropes in the Moravian Church, transregional kinship networks in urban patriciates, the marriage practices of international entrepreneurial families of Imperial Germany, and structural aspects of kinship amongst Indian immigrants to contemporary Britain. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Oct. 2, 2014).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

• 9780857451842
• 0857451847

Publisher Number:

99960037382

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

The Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund Home Page