Kinship, Community, and Self : : Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean / / ed. by Jason Coy, Benjamin Marschke, Jared Poley, Claudia Verhoeven.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Emily,; Brady Jr., Thomas A.,; Coy, Jason,; Garbarini, Alexandra,; Goldberg, Ann E.,; Goldberg, Kevin D.,; Lindemann, Mary,; Luebke, David M.,; Mansker, Andrea,; Marschke, Benjamin,; Matsuda, Matt K.,; McEwen, Britta,; Polanichka, Dana M.,; Poley, Jared,; Prasad, Ritika,; Ryan, Daniel C.,; Sauter, Michael J.,; Verhoeven, Claudia,; Woodson-Boulton, Amy,; Zwick, Tamara,
• HerausgeberIn: Coy, Jason,; Marschke, Benjamin,; Poley, Jared,; Verhoeven, Claudia,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION Sabean’s Swabians: A Study of Kith and Kin -- PART I Kinship -- CHAPTER 1 “As a Brother Should Be” Siblings, Kinship, and Community in Carolingian Europe -- CHAPTER 2 The Legal Pitfalls of Marriage Brokerage in Nineteenth-Century France -- CHAPTER 3 “Married to the Bottle” Drunk Husbands and Wives in Wilhelmine Germany -- CHAPTER 4 A Home for Mothers in Vienna: Community and Crisis -- CHAPTER 5 Of Queens and Kinship: Politics and Legacies in the Colonial Pacific -- CHAPTER 6 The Making of a Japanese Rural Christian Community: Conversion through Family Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan -- PART II Community -- CHAPTER 7 Divination and Community in Early Modern Thuringia -- CHAPTER 8 Paracelsus: Greed, Self, and Community -- CHAPTER 9 From Heretics to Hypocrites: Anti-Pietist Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century -- CHAPTER 10 Finding Orthodoxy in the Baltic: Conservative Russia and the Baltic Region in the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER 11 Women, Railways, and Respectability in Colonial India -- CHAPTER 12 Adventures in Terrorism: Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky and the Literary Lives of the Russian Revolutionary Community (1860s–80s) -- CHAPTER 13 Power in Truth Telling: Jewish Testimonial Strategies before the Shoah -- PART III Self -- CHAPTER 14 For the Love of Geometry: The Rise of Euclidism in the Early Modern World, 1450–1850 -- CHAPTER 15 A Private Repulsion toward Public Women in the Letters of Caspar von Voght and Germaine de Staël -- CHAPTER 16 Honor and the Policing of Intra-Jewish Disputes in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany -- CHAPTER 17 You Are What You Reform? Class, Consumption, and Identity in Victorian Britain -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DAVID WARREN SABEAN’S PUBLISHED WORKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX