Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond

Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History and member of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University.

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Rethinking European Kinship: Trans-regional and Transnational FamiliesDavid Warren Sabean and Simon TeuscherChapter 1. The Historical Emergence and Massification of International Families in Europe and its DiasporaJose C. MoyaSection I. The Medieval and Early Modern ExperienceChapter 2. Mamluk and Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of ‘Kinship’ and ‘Family’Gabriel PiterbergChapter 3. From Local Signori to European High Nobility: The Gonzaga Family Networks in the Fifteenth CenturyChristina AntenhoferChapter 4. Property Regimes and Migration of Patrician Families in Western Europe around 1500Simon TeuscherChapter 5. Trans-dynasticism at the Dawn of the Modern Era: Kinship Dynamics among Ruling FamiliesMichaela HohkampChapter 6. Marriage, Commercial Capital, and Business Agency: Trans-regional Sephardic (and Armenian) Families in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century MediterraneanFrancesca TrivellatoChapter 7. Those in Between: Princely Families on the Margins of the Great Powers—The Franco-German Frontier, 1477-1830Jonathan SpanglerChapter 8. Spiritual Kinship: The Moravians as an International Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters (1730s-1830s)Gisele MetteleSection II. ModernityChapter 9. Families of Empires and Nations: Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the World Around It (1669-1856)Christine PhilliouChapter 10. Into the World: Kinship and Nation-Building in France, 1750-1885Christopher H. JohnsonChapter 11. German International Families in the Nineteenth Century: The Siemens Family as a Thought ExperimentDavid Warren SabeanChapter 12. The Culture of Caribbean Migration to Britain in the 1950sMary ChamberlainChapter 13. Exile, Familial Ideology, and Gender Roles in Palestinian Camps in Jordan since 1948Stéphanie Latte AbdallahChapter 14. Mirror Image of Family Relations: Social Links between Patel Migrants in Britain and IndiaMario Rutten and Pravin J. PatelNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

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