Kinship, Community, and Self

Jason Coy is Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of Strangers and Misfits: Banishment, Social Control, and Authority in Early Modern Germany (2008) and co-editor of The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered (2010).

• PrefaceIntroduction: Sabean’s Swabians: A Study of Kith and KinThomas A. Brady Jr.KinshipChapter 1. “As a Brother Should Be”: Siblings, Kinship, and Community in Carolingian EuropeDana M. PolanichkaChapter 2. The Legal Pitfalls of Marriage Brokerage in Nineteenth-Century FranceAndrea ManskerChapter 3. “Married to the Bottle”: Drunk Husbands and Wives in Wilhelmine GermanyKevin D. GoldbergChapter 4. A Home for Mothers in Vienna: Community and CrisisBritta McEwenChapter 5. Of Queens and Kinship: Politics and Legacies in the Colonial PacificMatt K. MatsudaChapter 6. The Making of a Japanese Rural Christian Community: Conversion Through Family Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century JapanEmily AndersonCommunityChapter 7. Divination and Community in Early Modern ThuringiaJason CoyChapter 8. Paracelsus: Greed, Self, and CommunityJared PoleyChapter 9. From Heretics to Hypocrites: Anti-Pietist Rhetoric Transitioning from the Establishment to the anti-EstablishmentBenjamin MarschkeChapter 10. Finding Orthodoxy in the Baltic: Conservative Russia and the Baltic Region in the Nineteenth CenturyDaniel C. RyanChapter 11. Railway Travel and Women in Colonial IndiaRitika PrasadChapter 12. Adventures in Terrorism: Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky and the Literary Lives of the Russian Revolutionary Community (1860s-80s)Claudia VerhoevenChapter 13. Power in Truth-Telling: Jewish Testimonial Strategies before the ShoahAlexandra GarbariniSelfChapter 14. For the Love of Geometry: The Rise of Euclidism in the Early-Modern World, 1450-1850Michael J. SauterChapter 15.The German Problem in the Letters of Caspar von Voght and Germaine de StaëlTamara ZwickChapter 16. Honor and the Policing of Intra-Jewish Disputes in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century GermanyAnn E. GoldbergChapter 17. You Are What You Reform? Class, Consumption, and Identity in Victorian BritainAmy Woodson-BoultonConclusionMary Lindemann and David M. LuebkeBibliography of David Warren Sabean’s Published WorksBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

“This is a very fine collection of essays. The goal of this volume is clearly to showcase the diversity of the scholarly work that has been inspired by Sabean’s approach to history, the kinds of questions he has asked of his sources, and his ability to penetrate to the heart of submerged or overlooked discourses and life-worlds.”  ·  George Williamson, Florida State University