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"David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. His career has helped shape the discipline of history through his supervision of dozens of graduate studentsand his influence on countless other scholars. This book collects wide-ranging essays demonstrating the impact of Sabean's work has on scholars of diverse time periods and regions, all revolving around the prominent issues that have framed his career: kinship, community, and self. The significance of David Warren Sabean's scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former students and essays written by his contemporaries, demonstrating Sabean's impact on the discipline of history"--Provided by publisher.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction: Sabean's Swabians: A Study of Kith and Kin
Thomas A. Brady Jr. Kinship Chapter 1. "As a Brother Should Be": Siblings, Kinship, and Community in Carolingian Europe
Dana M. Polanichka Chapter 2. The Legal Pitfalls of Marriage Brokerage in Nineteenth-Century France
Andrea Mansker Chapter 3. "Married to the Bottle": Drunk Husbands and Wives in Wilhelmine Germany
Kevin D. Goldberg Chapter 4. A Home for Mothers in Vienna: Community and Crisis
Britta McEwen Chapter 5. Of Queens and Kinship: Politics and Legacies in the Colonial Pacific
Matt K. Matsuda Chapter 6. The Making of a Japanese Rural Christian Community: Conversion Through Family Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
Emily Anderson Community Chapter 7. Divination and Community in Early Modern Thuringia
Jason Coy Chapter 8. Paracelsus: Greed, Self, and Community
Jared Poley Chapter 9. From Heretics to Hypocrites: Anti-Pietist Rhetoric Transitioning from the Establishment to the anti-Establishment
Benjamin Marschke Chapter 10. Finding Orthodoxy in the Baltic: Conservative Russia and the Baltic Region in the Nineteenth Century
Daniel C. Ryan Chapter 11. Railway Travel and Women in Colonial India
Ritika Prasad Chapter 12. Adventures in Terrorism: Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky and the Literary Lives of the Russian Revolutionary Community (1860s-80s)
Claudia Verhoeven Chapter 13. Power in Truth-Telling: Jewish Testimonial Strategies before the Shoah
Alexandra Garbarini Self Chapter 14. For the Love of Geometry: The Rise of Euclidism in the Early-Modern World, 1450-1850
Michael J. Sauter Chapter 15.The German Problem in the Letters of Caspar von Voght and Germaine de Staël
Tamara Zwick Chapter 16. Honor and the Policing of Intra-Jewish Disputes in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany
Ann E. Goldberg Chapter 17. You Are What You Reform? Class, Consumption, and Identity in Victorian Britain
Amy Woodson-Boulton Conclusion Mary Lindemann and David M. Luebke Bibliography of David Warren Sabean's Published Works
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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).
Benjamin Marschke is Associate Professor of History at Humboldt State University, in Arcata, California. Marschke has held fellowships from the DAAD, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, and the Max Planck Institut für Geschichte. He is the author of Absolutely Pietist: Patronage, Factionalism, and State-Building in the Early Eighteenth-Century Prussian Army Chaplaincy (2005), and co-editor of The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered (2010).
Jared Poley is Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is the author of Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation (2005) and co-editor of Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (2012). He also edits the World History Bulletin.
Claudia Verhoeven is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. She is the author of The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism (2009) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism (forthcoming, 2014).
Zusammenfassung
David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. The significance of Sabean’s scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former students and essays written by his contemporaries, demonstrating Sabean’s impact on the discipline of history.
