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Preface

Introduction — Rethinking European Kinship: Transregional and Transnational Families

Chapter 1 — The Historical Emergence and Massification of International Families in Europe and Its Diaspora

Part I — The Medieval and Early Modern Experience

Chapter 2 — Mamluk and Ottoman Political Households: An Alternative Model of "Kinship" and "Family"

Chapter 3 — From Local Signori to European High Nobility: The Gonzaga Family Networks in the Fifteenth Century

Chapter 4 — Property Regimes and Migration of Patrician Families in Western Europe around 1500

Chapter 5 — Transdynasticism at the Dawn of the Modern Era: Kinship Dynamics among Ruling Families

Chapter 6 — Marriage, Commercial Capital, and Business Agency: Transregional Sephardic (and Armenian) Families in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean

Chapter 7 — Those in Between: Princely Families on the Margins of the Great Powers—The Franco-German Frontier, 1477–1830

Chapter 8 — Spiritual Kinship: The Moravians as an International Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters (1730s–1830s)

Part II — Modernity

Chapter 9 — Families of Empires and Nations: Phanariot Hanedans from the Ottoman Empire to the World Around It (1669–1856)

Chapter 10 — Into the World: Kinship and Nation Building in France, 1750–1885

Chapter 11 — German International Families in the Nineteenth Century: The Siemens Family as a Thought Experiment

Chapter 12 — The Culture of Caribbean Migration to Britain in the 1950s

Chapter 13 — Exile, Familial Ideology, and Gender Roles in Palestinian Camps in Jordan, 1948–2001

Chapter 14 — Mirror Image of Family Relations: Social Links between Patel Migrants in Britain and India

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index