Kinship, community, and self
Subtitle: essays in honor of David Warren Sabean
By: edited by Jason Coy, Benjamin Marschke, Jared Poley, and Claudia Verhoeven
Contributors: Sabean, David Warren
Series: Spektrum : publications of the German Studies Association -- volume 9
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781782384199; 9781782384205
Subjects: Kinship; History; Families; Community life; Self; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: "David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. His career has helped shape the discipline of history through his supervision of dozens of graduate students and his influence on countless other scholars. This book collects wide-ranging essays demonstrating the impact of Sabean's work has on scholars of diverse time periods and regions, all revolving around the prominent issues that have framed his career: kinship, community, and self. The significance of David Warren Sabean's scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former students and essays written by his contemporaries, demonstrating Sabean's impact on the discipline of history"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Sabean's Swabians : a study of kith and kin / Thomas A. Brady Jr; title: Part I. Kinship; title: "As a brother should be" : siblings, kinship, and community in Carolingian Europe / Dana M. Polanichka; title: The legal pitfalls of marriage brokerage in nineteenth-century France / Andrea Mansker; title: "Married to the bottle" : drunk husbands and wives in Wilhelmine Germany / Kevin d. Goldberg; title: A home for mothers in Vienna : community and crisis / Britta McEwen; title: Of queens and kinship : politics and legacies in the colonial Pacific / Matt K. Matsuda; title: The making of a Japanese rural Christian community : conversion through family networks in late nineteenth-century Japan / Emily Anderson; title: Part II. Community; title: Divination and community in early modern Thuringia / Jason Coy; title: Paracelsus : greed, self, and community / Jared Poley; title: From heretics to hypocrites : anti-Pietist rhetoric in the eighteenth century / Benjamin Marschke; title: Finding orthodoxy in the Baltic : conservative Russia and the Baltic region in the nineteenth century / Daniel C. Ryan; title: Women, railways, and respectability in colonial India / Ritika Prasad; title: Adventures in terrorism : Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky and the literary lives of the Russian revolutionary community (1860s/80s) / Claudia Verhoeven; title: Power in truth telling : Jewish testimonial strategies before the Shoah / Alexandra Garbarini; title: Part III. Self; title: For the love of geometry : the rise of Euclidism in the early modern world, 1450/1850 / Michael J. Sauter; title: A private repulsion toward public women in the letters of Caspar von Voght and Germaine de Staël / Tamara Zwick; title: Honor and the policing of intra-Jewish disputes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany / Ann E. Goldberg; title: You are what you reform? : class, consumption, and identity in Victorian Britain / Amy Woodson-Boulton; title: Conclusion / Mary Lindemann and David M. Luebke.