Transregional and transnational families in Europe and beyond : experiences since the middle ages / edited by Christopher H. Johnson ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Christopher H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Europe.

Families.

Kinship--Europe--History.

Kinship.

Intergenerational relations--Europe.

Intergenerational relations.

Transnationalism.

Ethnicity.

Europe--Social life and customs.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for understanding the dynamics of dispersion, few studies examine the nature of these families in any detail. 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. Paradoxically, "transnational families" are to be found long be

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857451842

0857451847

OCLC:

751694538