Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures viii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction. Rethinking European Kinship: Transregional and Transnational Families 1
6. Chapter 1 The Historical Emergence and Massification of International Families in Europe and Its Diaspora 23
7. PART I THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EXPERIENCE
8. Chapter 2 Mamluk and Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of “Kinship” and “Family” 43
9. Chapter 3 From Local Signori to European High Nobility: The Gonzaga Family Networks in the Fifteenth Century 55
10. Chapter 4 Property Regimes and Migration of Patrician Families in Western Europe around 1500 75
11. Chapter 5 Transdynasticism at the Dawn of the Modern Era: Kinship Dynamics among Ruling Families 93
12. Chapter 6 Marriage, Commercial Capital, and Business Agency: Transregional Sephardic (and Armenian) Families in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean 107
13. Chapter 7 Those in Between: Princely Families on the Margins of the Great Powers—The Franco-German Frontier, 1477–1830 131
14. Chapter 8 Spiritual Kinship: The Moravians as an International Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters (1730s–1830s) 155
15. PART II MODERNITY
16. Chapter 9 Families of Empires and Nations: Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the World Around It (1669–1856) 177
17. Chapter 10 Into the World: Kinship and Nation Building in France, 1750–1885 201
18. Chapter 11 German International Families in the Nineteenth Century: The Siemens Family as a Thought Experiment 229
19. Chapter 12 The Culture of Caribbean Migration to Britain in the 1950s 253
20. Chapter 13 Exile, Familial Ideology, and Gender Roles in Palestinian Camps in Jordan, 1948–2001 271
21. Chapter 14 Mirror Image of Family Relations: Social Links between Patel Migrants in Britain and India 295
22. Bibliography 313
23. Notes on Contributors 341
24. Index 349