Kinship, community, and self : essays in honor of David Warren Sabean
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Kinship, community, and self : essays in honor of David Warren Sabean
（Spektrum : publications of the German Studies Association / series editor, David M. Luebke, v. 9）
Berghahn Books, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-275) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Sabean's Swabians: A Study of Kith and Kin
Thomas A. Brady Jr.
Kinship
Chapter 1. "As a Brother Should Be": Siblings, Kinship, and Community in Carolingian Europe
Dana M. Polanichka
Chapter 2. The Legal Pitfalls of Marriage Brokerage in Nineteenth-Century France
Andrea Mansker
Chapter 3. "Married to the Bottle": Drunk Husbands and Wives in Wilhelmine Germany
Kevin D. Goldberg
Chapter 4. A Home for Mothers in Vienna: Community and Crisis
Britta McEwen
Chapter 5. Of Queens and Kinship: Politics and Legacies in the Colonial Pacific
Matt K. Matsuda
Chapter 6. The Making of a Japanese Rural Christian Community: Conversion Through Family Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
Emily Anderson
Community
Chapter 7. Divination and Community in Early Modern Thuringia
Jason Coy
Chapter 8. Paracelsus: Greed, Self, and Community
Jared Poley
Chapter 9. From Heretics to Hypocrites: Anti-Pietist Rhetoric Transitioning from the Establishment to the anti-Establishment
Benjamin Marschke
Chapter 10. Finding Orthodoxy in the Baltic: Conservative Russia and the Baltic Region in the Nineteenth Century
Daniel C. Ryan
Chapter 11. Railway Travel and Women in Colonial India
Ritika Prasad
Chapter 12. Adventures in Terrorism: Sergei Stepniak-Kravchinsky and the Literary Lives of the Russian Revolutionary Community (1860s-80s)
Claudia Verhoeven
Chapter 13. Power in Truth-Telling: Jewish Testimonial Strategies before the Shoah
Alexandra Garbarini
Self
Chapter 14. For the Love of Geometry: The Rise of Euclidism in the Early-Modern World, 1450-1850
Michael J. Sauter
Chapter 15.The German Problem in the Letters of Caspar von Voght and Germaine de Stael
Tamara Zwick
Chapter 16. Honor and the Policing of Intra-Jewish Disputes in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany
Ann E. Goldberg
Chapter 17. You Are What You Reform? Class, Consumption, and Identity in Victorian Britain
Amy Woodson-Boulton
Conclusion
Mary Lindemann and David M. Luebke
Bibliography of David Warren Sabean's Published Works
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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