Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond: Experiences Since the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780857451835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 372 str.

Christopher H. Johnson;David Warren Sabean;Simon Teuscher

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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.PChristopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History and member of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University.PDavid Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles.PSimon Teuscher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Zurich.PFrancesca Trivellato is Professor of History at Yale University.