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.
"The fundamental strength of this anthology lies precisely in its hubris. It invites the reader to put on a new and different set of glasses that reveal connections between kinship and historical turning points in ways never really considered before. Kinship takes on an agency that discombobulates the imperial and national geographies most historians take for granted." - Beshara Doumani, University of California, Berkeley
"[ This volume] deals with a worthy and relatively unexplored topic through an admirably diverse array of chronological and geographical contexts. Like many other subjects, kinship needs to be understood outside of the traditional bounds of national history, and this work is an important step in that direction. ... the research is solid and well-founded." - Jason Tebbe, Stephen F. Austin State University
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