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 before the nation-state was in place.
Table of Content
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: Rethinking European Kinship: Trans-regional and Transnational Families
David Warren Sabean and Simon Teuscher
Chapter 1. The Historical Emergence and Massification of International Families in Europe and its Diaspora
Jose C. Moya
Section I. The Medieval and Early Modern Experience
Chapter 2. Mamluk and Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of ‘Kinship’ and ‘Family’
Gabriel Piterberg
Chapter 3. From Local Signori to European High Nobility: The Gonzaga Family Networks in the Fifteenth Century
Christina Antenhofer
Chapter 4. Property Regimes and Migration of Patrician Families in Western Europe around 1500
Simon Teuscher
Chapter 5. Trans-dynasticism at the Dawn of the Modern Era: Kinship Dynamics among Ruling Families
Michaela Hohkamp
Chapter 6. Marriage, Commercial Capital, and Business Agency: Trans-regional Sephardic (and Armenian) Families in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean
Francesca Trivellato
Chapter 7. Those in Between: Princely Families on the Margins of the Great Powers—The Franco-German Frontier, 1477-1830
Jonathan Spangler
Chapter 8. Spiritual Kinship: The Moravians as an International Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters (1730s-1830s)
Gisele Mettele
Section II. Modernity
Chapter 9. Families of Empires and Nations: Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the World Around It (1669-1856)
Christine Philliou
Chapter 10. Into the World: Kinship and Nation-Building in France, 1750-1885
Christopher H. Johnson
Chapter 11. German International Families in the Nineteenth Century: The Siemens Family as a Thought Experiment
David Warren Sabean
Chapter 12. The Culture of Caribbean Migration to Britain in the 1950s
Mary Chamberlain
Chapter 13. Exile, Familial Ideology, and Gender Roles in Palestinian Camps in Jordan since 1948
Stéphanie Latte Abdallah
Chapter 14. Mirror Image of Family Relations: Social Links between Patel Migrants in Britain and India
Mario Rutten and Pravin J. Patel
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Francesca Trivellato is Professor of History at Yale University.
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