Transregional And Transnational Families In Europe And Beyond Experiences Since The Middle Ages Christopher H Johnson Editor David Warren Sabean Editor Simon Teuscher Editor Francesca Trivellato Editor by Christopher H. Johnson (editor); David Warren Sabean (editor); Simon Teuscher (editor); Francesca Trivellato (editor) 9780857451842, 0857451847 instant download after payment.

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.