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Zusatztext " The organizers and editors of the various panels and the book ' s editors are to be congratulated for bringing together such a diverse group of scholars into a " global " discussion? The present volume stands as a pioneering effort to guide scholars towards the goal [of pointed theoretical questions for comparative study]?The book is nicely put together ." · Journal of Social History "?The volume [is] an accomplished and diligent work! a touchstone to teach us about the limits of anthropological engagement. The 'lively exchange' between history and anthropology will only take place when anthropologists will take seriously the contributions made herein and apply them to the fields of migration studies! transnationalism and mobility." · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale Informationen zum Autor Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History and member of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University. David Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles. Simon Teuscher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Zurich. Francesca Trivellato is Professor of History at Yale University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 F...
