History 230

Fall, Winter 2005-6

Mr. Sabean

5337 Bunche Hall

Office Hours T/Th 1:00-1:50 and by appointment

dsabean@history.ucla.edu

 

International Families in Europe and Beyond Since the Late Middle Ages

 

 

The past several decades have seen the development of considerable interest in kinship in the European past. The formal study of kinship and the systems and structures of reciprocities, exchanges, obligations, duties, rights, and claims among people who recognize themselves as related to each other grew out of anthropological work devoted mostly to non-European societies. For Europeans (and North Americans), self-examination demanded other methodologies and contrasting understandings, with the discipline of family sociology developed as the suitable approach for grasping the salient features of the nuclear family, knit together by sentiment, and abstracted from public life, work, economic networks, and political obligation. Recent historical work on the Western family has weakened the contrast between the anthropological other and the sociological self, and the old story about the rise of new institutions and the modernization of social, political, and economic life being inimical to social organization around kin networks, interconnected households, and well-integrated sets of relatives is being called into question. One of the most fruitful new areas to explore is the way families have distributed themselves across different states, ethnic areas, and cultures while maintaining intensive contacts with each other. The analysis of kinship takes on new urgency to understand the creation of social and cultural milieus, the transfers of cultural goods, the coordination of mercantile, financial, and industrial enterprises, the exportation of labor, and the coherence of diasporas. For Europe, the distribution of political elites among the burgeoning early modern states, the movement of craftsmen and financiers across frontiers, the linking of family members in colonial expansion, the pressures of nationalism on dispersed kin, interrationships among multi-lingual kin, and familial reciprocities among entrepreneurs--all pose new questions and call for research strategies that oppose “routes” to “roots” or find possibilities to connect them in new ways. The past several decades have introduced a new vocabulary into historical projects--“connected,” “entangled,” “blended,” “trans,” “crossed,” and “transferred”--just to mention a few. The study of “international” families provides a rigorous entry into the new research.

 

            The course is a two-quarter research seminar, and credit will only be given to those students who complete both quarters. During the first quarter, we will be introduced to the literature on the subject--substantive, comparative, methodological, and theoretical. During the second,  participants will present an original research paper to the seminar, which will be distributed a week in advance and read beforehand. Each student will be required to offer a judicious and far-reaching critique. During the first quarter, seminars will be organized around discussion and reports, and students will be expected to explain the research project they will write on for the second quarter. The reading for each week during the Fall is divided into a Part A and a Part B. Part A offers a book that we will all read and discuss. The extended bibliography in Part B provides suggestions for student reports. Each participant will choose a significant amount of material to read for a 20-minute report to the seminar. These reports should be well organized and reflect on the empirical material as well as on methodological and theoretical issues. Of course, the bibliography offers suggestions for all the students to deepen and broaden their knowledge. Students are required to read in those languages they alleged they could read when applying to graduate school or they have been examined in.

           

            The central focus of this course is on European history since the late Middle Ages, but much of the work will be comparative and will deal with non-European areas and groups. The point of the reading is to develop a broad comparative perspective and to look at European history over the long term. Students are expected to read widely and should choose to report on areas and topics with which they are unfamiliar.

 

Week 1. October 4. INTRODUCTION

 

 

Week 2. October 11

 

PART A: Narrativity and transnational lives

 

Assignment: Mary Chamberlain, Narratives of Exile and Return (Transaction, 2004). Bookstore and Graduate Reserve

 

 

PART B: Connected, entangled, blended, shared, transnational, comparative, global histories, histoires croisées, Beziehungsgeschichten, transfers. Although there will be an assigned report this week, each student should read several articles from this bibliography. Use your languages.

 

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges (Ne Delhi, 2005)

 

R. Bin wong, “Entre monde et nation: les régions braudéliennes en Asie,” in Annales HSS 56 (2001), pp. 5-43

 

Kiran Klaus Petel, “Transatlantische Perspektiven transnationaler Geschichte,” in Geschichte und Gesellschaft 29 (2003), pp. 625-47.

 

G.M. Frederickson, “From Exceptionalism to Variability. Recent Developments in Cross-National Comparative History,” in Journal of American History 82 (1995), pp. 587-604.

 

Jürgen Osterhammel, “Transnationale Gesellschaftsgeschichte: Erweiterung oder Alternative?,” in Geschichte und Gesellschaft 27 (2001), pp. 464-79.

 

Jürgen Osterhammel, Geschichtswissenschaft jenseits des nationalstaats. Studien zu Beziehungsgeschichte und Zivilisationsvergleich (Göttingen, 2001)

 

Frederic Barth, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. The Social Organization of Culture Difference (Bergen-Oslo, 1969)

 

Laurier Turgeon, Denys Delâge, Réal Ouellet, eds.,  Transfers culturels et métissages. Amérique culturels et métissages. Amérique/Europe (xvie-xxe siècles) (Laval, 1996)

 

Jacques Revel, ed , Jeux d’échelles. La micro-analyse à l’expérience (Paris, 1996)

 

Sebastian Conrad and Shalini Randerià, eds., Jenseits der Eurozentrismus. Postkoloniale Perspektiven in den Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (Frankfurt, 2002)

 

Johannes Paulmann, “Internationaler Vergleich und interkultureller Transfer. Zwei Forschungsansätze zur europäischen Geschichte des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts,” in Historische Zeitschrift (1998), pp. 649-85.

 

Matthias Middell, “Kulturtransfer und historische Komparatistik, Thesen zu ihrem Verhältnis,” in Comparativ 10 (2000), pp. 7-41.

 

Jürgen Kocka, “Comparison and Beyond,” in History and Theory 42 (2003), pp. 39-44.

 

Lucette Valensi, “L’exercise de la comparison au plus proche, à distance: le cas des sociétés plurielles,” in Annales HSS 57 (2002), pp. 27-30, 31-157.

 

Michael Werner and Bénédict Zimmermann, “Penser l’histoire croiséd: entre empirie er réflexivité,” in  Annales HSS 58 (2003), pp. 7-36.

 

Ann Laura Stoler and Frederic Cooper, “Between Metropole and Colony. Rethinking a Research Agenda,” in idem, ed., Tensions of Empire. Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Berkeley, 1997), pp. 1-56

 

Brian Mazlich and R. Buultjens, eds., Conceptualizing Global History (Boulder, 1993)

 

A. Wirtz, “Für eine transnationale Gesellschaftsgeschichte,” in Geschichte und Gesellschaft 27 (2001), pp. 489-98.

 

Michael Werner and Bénédict Zimmermann, “Vergleich, Transfer, Verflechtung. Der Ansatz der Histoire croisée und die Herausforderung des Transnationalen,” in Geschichte und Gesellschaft 28 (2002), pp. 607-36.

 

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “Connected Histories: Toward a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia,” in V.B. Lieberman, ed., Beyond Binary Histories: Re-Thinking Eurasia to c. 1830 (Ann Arbor, 1997), pp. 289-315

 

 

Week 3. October 18

 

PART A: European Families disperse

 

Assignment: Deborah Bryceson and Ulla Vuorela (eds.), The transnational family. New European Frontiers and Global Networks (Berg, 2002). Bookstore and Graduate Reserve

 

 

PART B: Aristocratic families and court societies

 

Toby Osborne, Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years War (Cambridge, 2002)

 

David Parrott, “A ‘prince souverain’ and the French crown: Charles de Nevers, 1580-1637,”  in Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe, ed. Robert Oresko, G.C. Gibbs and H.M. Scott (Cambridge, 1997.

 

Serge Gruzinski, “Les mondes mêlés de la monarchie catholique et autres “connected histories,” in Annales HSS 56 (2001), pp. 85-11

 

Kathryn Edwards, Families and Frontiers: Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies (Boston and Leiden, 2002).

 

Christophe Duhamelle, “Les noblesses du Saint-Empire du milieu du XVIe au milieu du XVIIIe siècle,” Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 46, 1 (1999): 146-70.

 

Wilhelm Janssen, “Zwischen dynastischer loyalität und ständischem Druck: Die ersten Wittelsbacher am Niederrhein,” Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 60, 3 (1997): 1095-1107

Rita Costa Gomes, Making of a Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medieval Portugal (Cambridge, 2003)

 

Robert Oresko, “The Marriages of the Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin: Public Policy and Private Strategy in Seventeenth-Century Europe,” in Frankreich im Europäischen Staatensystem der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Rainer Babel (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1995)

 

Olga Majolo Molinari, Filippo di Savoia duca di Nemours (1490-1533) (Turin: Paravia, 1938)

 

Magdalena S. Sánchez, The Empress, The Queen, and the Nun: Women and Power at the Court of Philip III of Spain (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

 

Ric Court, “Januensis ergo mercator: Trust and Enforcement in the Business Correspondence of the Brignole Family,” Sixteenth Century Journal 35, 4 (2004): 987-1003.

 

Henri Lapeyre, Une famille de marchands: Les Ruiz (Paris, 1955).

 

Thomas Dandelet--works on Colonna family pal states, and from other Italian courts. These families are awaiting their historians, I suppose.

 

Matt Vester, Jacques de Savoie-Nemours: Le progrès d’un apanagiste dans l’Europe de la Renaissance (forthcoming, Librairie Droz, Geneva)

 

Matt Vester, “Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes,” in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. Guido Ruggiero (Blackwell, 2002), pp. 227-42.

 

C. Debris, Tu Felix Austria nube. La dynastie de Habsbourg et sa politique matrimoniale à la fin du Moyen Âge (XIII-XVI siècles) (Turnhout, 2005)

 

Guido Castelnuovo, Ufficali e gentiluomini. La società politica sabauda nel tardo medioevo (Milano 1994)

 

Joanna H. Drell, Kinship and Conquest. Family Strategies in the Principality of Salerno during the Norman Period 1077-1194 (Ithaca 2002)

 

Cornell Fleischer,  Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire, chap. 1

 

Petr Maťa,  Svět české aristokracie (1500-1700) (Prag 2004)

 

Dirk Van der Cruysse, Madame Palatine, princesse europeenne"(Paris,1988).

 

Robert Oresko, "Bastards as Clients: The House of Savoy and its Illegitimate Children", in C. Giry-Deloison and R. Mettam, eds., Patronages et clientelismes, 1550-1750 (Lille, 1995)

 

Robert Oresko, "The Marriages of the Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin. Public Policy and Private Strategy in Seventeenth-Century Europe", in Rainer Babel, ed., Frankreich im europäischen Staatensystem der Frühen Neuzeit (Sigmaringen, 1995)

 

Claudia Opitz, "Vom Familienzwist zum sozialen Konflikt. Über adlige Eheschliessungspraktiken im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter", in Ursula Becher and Jörn Rüsen (ed), Weiblichkeit in geschichtlicher Perspektive (Frankfurt a.M. 1988), pp. 116 – 149.

 

Antje Stannek, Telemachs Brüder. Die höfische Bildungsreise des 17. Jahrhunderts (Frankfurt / New York, 2001)

 

Antje Stannek,"Aufwachsen im Ausland. Zur geschlechtsspezifischen Sozialisation adeliger Knaben im 17. Jahrhundert", in L'Homme – Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 8/2 (1997), pp. 242 – 256.

 

Dorothea Nolde, „Begegnungen zwischen französischen Reisenden und deutsche Gastgebern im 17. Jahrhundert“, in: Grand Tour. Adliges Reisen und Europäische Kultur vom 14. Bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Internationales Kolloquium des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Paris, Ostfildern 2005.

 

Ralph Tuchtenhagen, “Dynastische Verbindungen und Migration. Das Beispiel Baden,” Mathias Beer and Dittmar Dahlmann (ed.), Ueber die trockene Grenze und das offene Meer. Binneneuropäische und transatlantische Migrationen im 18. Und 19. Jahrhundert  (Essen, 2004) pp.. 91 – 133.

 

Fanny Cosandey, Reine de France (Gallimard 2000)

 

Fanny Cosandey, “Francese o straniera? La regina di Francia tra dignità regale e successione ereditaria”, in Genesis, I/1, 2002, pp. 35-60.

 

Sophie Ruppel, "Geschwisterbeziehungen im Adel und Norbert Elias' Figurationstheorie. Ein Anwendungsversuch," in Claudia Opitz (ed.), Höfische Gesellschaft und Zivilisationsprozess. Norbert Elias' Werk in kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektiv (Köln / Weimar, 2004), pp. 207- 224.

 

Margret Lemberg, Eine Königin ohne Reich. Das Leben der Winterkönigin Elisabeth Stuart und ihre Briefe nach Hessen (Marburg, 1996.)

 

Sigrun Paas,  Liselotte von der Pfalz. Madame am Hofe des Sonnenkönigs (Ausstellungskatalog) (Heidelberg 1996)

 

Elborg Forster (ed), A Womans Life in the Court of the Sun King. Letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz 1652 – 1722, Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans (Baltimore / London 1984).

 

 

Karl Heinz Spiess, ”Fremdheit und Integration der ausländischen Ehefrau und ihres Gefolges bei internationalen Fürstenheiraten,” in Fürstenhöfe und ihre Außenwelt. Aspekte gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Identität im deutschen Spätmittelalter, ed. Thomas Zotz (Würzburg, 2004), pp. 267-290

 

Karl Heinz Spiess, “Reisen deutscher Fürsten und Grafen im Spätmittelalter,” in Grand Tour. Adliges Reisen und europäische Kultur vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert, ed. Rainer Babel und Werner Paravicini (Beihefte der Francia, 60) (Ostfildern, 2005), pp. 33-51.

 

Karl Heinz Spiess, "Retinue and Trousseau of Late Medieval Queens" - Lecture 5. Mai 2005 in the section, "Queens and their Courts," 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo. 

 

Karl Heinz Spiess, "European Royal Marriages in the Late Middle Ages. Marriage Treaties, Questions of Income, Cultural Transfer," - Keynote lecture for the international confefrence, "Medieval and Early Modern Queens and Queenship: Questions of Income and Patronage," (13.-15.10.2004), Central European University in Budapest.

 

 

 

Week 4: October 25

 

PART A: Connecting “routes” to “roots”

 

Assignment: Akram Khater, Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 (Berkeley, 2001). Bookstore and Graduate Reserve

 

 

PART B: Transnationality and the nation state

 

Molly Greene, A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Princeton, 2000)

 

Margaret Lee Meriwether,  The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840 (Austin, 1999)

 

Leslie Peirce,  The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (New York, 1993)

 

 Rebecca Earle (ed.), Epistolary Selves. Letters and letter Writers 1600 – 1945 (Hants / Vermont 1999)

 

Mathias Beer and Dittmar Dahlmann, (ed), Ueber die trockene Grenze und über das offene Meer. Binneneuropäische und transatlantische Migrationen im 18. Und 19. Jahrhundert, ( Essen, 2004)

 

Raul Merzario, Adamocrazia. Famiglie di emigranti in una regione alpina (Svizzera italiana, XVIII secolo) (Bologna,  2000)

 

Raffaella Sarti, "Bolognesi schiavi dei ‘Turchi’ e schiavi ‘turchi’ a Bologna tra Cinque e Settecento: alterità etnico-religiosa e riduzione in schiavitù," in Quaderni storici, 36 (2001), pp. 437-473

 

Giuseppe Bonaffini, La Sicilia e i Barbarischi: incursioni corsare e riscatto degli schiavi, 1570-1606 (Palermo,  1983)

 

L.P. Moch, Moving Europeans. Migration in Western Europe since 1650 ( Indiana University Press, 2003)

 

William D. Godsey, Jr, Nobles and Nation in Central Europe. Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750­1850 (Cambridge, 2005)

 

Eagle Glassheim, “Between Empire and Nation: The Bohemian Nobility, 1880-1918,” in Pieter M. Judson and Marsha L. Rozenblit, eds., Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (New York-Oxford, 2004) pp. 61-88

 

Eagle Glassheim, Genteel Nationalists: the Nobility in the Bohemian Lands, 1880-1948 (Cambridge MA, 2005

 

Jane Hathaway on the Ottoman Egyptian elite in the order of their appearance: the first (Cambridge UP, 1997) is more structural and political, the second (SUNY, 2003,

 

Busaidi royal family that ruled Muscat/Oman and Zanzibar from the beginning of the 19th century (the throne was split between Muscat and Zanzibar after the death of Seyyid Said b. Sultan in 1856; there are several studies that could be read about the Busaidi).

 

Mario Rutten, Asian Capitalists in the European Mirror (Amsterdam, 1994)

 

Cyril Grange, “Les réseaux matrimoniaux intra-confessionnels de la haute bourgeoisie juive à Paris à la fin du XIXe siècle,” unpublished mss.

 

 

 

 

Week 5: November 1

 

PART A: Beziehung as business/ Business as Beziehung

 

Assignment: Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ionna Pepelasis Minoglou (eds.), Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks. Four centuries of History (Berg,  2005).Bookstore and Graduate Reserve

 

 

PART B: Contested nationality

 

Donna R. Gabaccia, “Is Everywhere Nowhere? Nomads, Nations, and the Immigrant Paradigm of United States History,” in Journal of American History 86 (1999)

 

Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality (Duke, 1999),

 

Katy Gardner, Global Migrants, Local Lives; Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh (Oxford,  1995)

 

Mario Rutten and Pravin J. Patel. “Family Linkages between India and Britain: Views from Gujarat and London,” in Srilata Ravi, Mario Rutten and Beng-Lan Goh (eds), Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia (Singapore/Leiden, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies/International Institute for Asian Studies), pp. 242-266.

 

Michael D. Bordo, Alan M.Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds., Globalization in Historical Perspective  (Chicago, 2003)

 

Annalee Saxenian, Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2002)

 

Stéphanie Latte Abdallah, "Subvertir le consentement: itinéraires sociaux des femmes des camps de réfugiés en Jordanie 1948-2001," Annales HSS, 60 (2005).

 

Mary Chamberlain and Selma Leydesdorff, eds., "Transnational Families: Memories and Narratives," in Global Networks, 4, 3 (July 2004)

 

 

Week 6: November 8

 

PART A: Entrepreneurial webs

 

Claude Markovitz, Global world of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947 (Cambridge, 2000). Graduate Reserve

 

 

PART B: Management of capital/trade/business

 

Alan Friedman, Agnelli: Fiat and the Network of Italian power, New York, 1989;

 

Hans Dieter Evers and Jayarany Pavadarayan, Asceticism and ecstasy : the Chettiars of Singapore (Bielefeld, 1985)

 

David Rudner, Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1994)

 

Jonathan Mantle, Benetton. The family, the Business and the Brand, London, 1999.

 

David Hancock, Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 (Cambridge, 1995).

 

Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, MA, 1955)

 

Joseph Ferrie, Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum United States (Oxford University Press, 1999).

 

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation," American Economic Review, 91 (Dec. 2001): 1369-1401.

 

I. S. Révah, “Une famille de ‘nouveaux-chrétiens’: les Boccaro Francês,” in Revue des études juives, vol. XVI (CXVI) (1957), pp. 73-86.

 

Daniel M. Swetschinski,  “Kinship and Commerce: The Foundation of Portuguese Jewish Life in Seventeenth-Century Holland”, Studia Rosenthaliana, XV (1981), pp. 52-74. 

 

Brian Pullan, Brian 1977 “‘A Ship with Two Rudders’: “Righetto Marrano” and the Inquisition in Venice, in The Historical Journal,  20 (1977), pp. 25-58.

 

Brian Pullan,  The Jews of Europe and the Inquisition of Venice, 1550-1670 (Totowa, N.J., 1983)

 

Samuel, Edgar 1988-90 “The Curiel Family in 16th-century Portugal”, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, vol. XXXI, pp. 111-136.

 

Lévy, Lionel 1999 La nation juive portugaise: Livourne, Amsterdam, Tunis, 1591-1951 (Paris, 1999)

 

Jonathan I. Israel, Diasporas within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-Jews and the World Maritime Empires, 1540-1740 ( Leiden-Boston-Köln,  2002 )

 

Jonathan I.  Israel, “The Sephardi Contribution to Economic Life and Colonization in Europe and the New World (16th-18th Centuries),” in Haim Beinart, ed., Moreshet Sepharad: The Sephardi Legacy (2 vols: Jerusalem, 1992), vol. II, pp. 365-398.

I. S. Révah, “Le premier réglement imprimé de la «Santa Companhia de dotar orfans e donzelas pobres»”, Boletim internacional de bibliografia luso-brasileira,  4 (1963), pp. 650-691.

 

Miriam Bodian, Miriam, “The “Portuguese” Dowry Societies in Venice and in Amsterdam: A Case Study in Communal Differentiation within the Marrano Diaspora”, in Italia. Studi e ricerche sulla storia, la cultura e la letteratura degli ebrei d’Italia, 6 (1987), pp. 30-61. 

 

Evelyne Oliel-Grausz,  “A Study in Intercommunal Relations in the Sephardi Diaspora: London and Amsterdam in the Eighteenth Century”, in: Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands, ed. Chaya Brasz and Yosef Kaplan (Leiden, Boston, Köln, 2000), pp. 41-58.

Philip D. Curtin, Cross-cultural Trade in World History (Cambridge, 1984)

 

Claude Markovits,  The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama (Cambridge, 2000)

 

Natasha Glaisyer,  “Networking: Trade and Exchange in the Eightefenth-Century British Empire”, in The Historical Journal,  47 (2004), pp. 451-476.

 

Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis, and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (eds),  Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History (Oxford-New, 2005)

 

Abner Cohen,  “Cultural Strategies in the Organization of Trading Diasporas”, in Claude Meillassoux (edited by), The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa. Studies presented and discussed at the Tenth International African Seminar at Fourah Bay Collage, Freetown, December 1969 (Oxford, 1971),  pp. 266-281.

 

Sanjay, Subrahmanyam (ed), Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950 (New Delhi, 2003)

 

Ng  Chin-Keong,  Trade and Society: The Amoy Network on the China Coast 1683-1735 (Singapore, 1983).

 

Gunnar Dahl,  Trade, Trust and Networks: Commercial Culture in Late Medieval Italy, (Lund, 1998)

 

Stephen Frederic Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 (Cambridge, 1994)

 

Denys Lombard,  Le carrefour javanais: Essai d’histoire globale, 3 vols (Paris: 1990) –Vol. 2: Les réseaux asiatiques

 

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, (ed), Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World (Brookfield-VT, 1996).

 

Scott C. Levi, The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900 (Leiden, 2002).

 

Ioanna Minoglou Pepelasis,  “The Greek Merchant House of the Russian Black Sea: A Nineteenth-Century Example of a Traders’ Coalition”,International Journal of Maritime History, 10 (1998), pp. 61-104.

 

R. C. Nash,  “The Huguenot Diaspora and the Development of the Atlantic Economy: Huguenots and the Growth of the South Carolina Economy, 1680-1775”, in: Merchant Organization and Maritime Trade in the North Atlantic, 1600-1815, ed. Olaf Uwe Janzen, (St.John’s, Newfoundland, 1998), pp. 75-105.

 

Philippe Joutard, Philippe, et al. (eds). La diaspora des huguenots : les réfugiés protestants de France et leur dispersion dans le monde, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles (Paris, 2001)

 

Herbert Lüthy,  La banque protestante en France de la révocation de l’edite de Nantes à la Revolution (2 vols.: Paris, 1959-1961).

 

R. C. Nash,  2003 “Huguenot Merchants and the Development of South Carolina’s Slave-Plantation and Atlantic Trading Economy, 1680-1775”, in Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora, ed.  Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Randy J. Sparks (Columbia, SC, 2003), pp. 209-240.

Ulrike Freitag, Indian Ocean Migrants and State formation in Hadhramout: Reforming the Homeland (Leiden, 2003)

 

Ulrike Freitag and William Gervase Clarence-Smith, eds., hdhrami Scholars, Traders, and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s to 1960s (Leiden, 1997)

 

Davikin Studnicki-Gizbert, “La `nation’ portugaise. Réseaux marchands dan l’espace atlantique à l’époque moderne,” in Annales HSS 58 (2003), pp. 627-48

 

Anthony Molho and Diogo Ramada Curto, “Les réseaux marchands à l’époque moderne,” in Annales HSS 58 (2003), pp. 569-80

 

Francesca Trivellato, “Juifs de Livourne, Italiens de Lisbonne, Hindous de Goa. Réseaux marchands et échanges interculturels à l’èpoque moderne,” in Annales HSS 58 (2003), pp. 581-604.

 

 

Week 7: November 15

 

PART A: The States of labor

 

Donna R. Gabaccia and Fraser M. Ottanelli, eds., Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States (Urbana, 2001). Bookstore and Graduate Reserve

 

 

PART B: Labor migration

 

Leonard Rosenband has an article on glassworkers who worked in France and England (1780-1840)

 

Laurence Fontaine, "Solidarités familiales et logiques migratoires en pays de montagne à l'époque moderne", in Annales E.S.C. (1990), pp. 1433-1450.

 

Jose Moya, Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 (Berkeley, 1998)

 

Harry Goulbourne and Mary Chamberlain, eds., Caribbean Families in Britain and the Transatlantic World (London, 2001)

 

Mary Chamberlain, ed., Caribbean Migration: Globalized Identities (London, 1998)

 

Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Laconetta, eds., Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World (Toronto, 2002)

 

Madeline Hsu, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home (Stanford, 2000)

 

Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller, “Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology,” in International Migration Review 37 (2003)

 

Takeyuki Tsuda, “Migration and Alienation: Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrants and the Search for Homeland Abroad”

 

Michael Williams, “Introduction: The Border Guard View,” in “Destination Qiaoxiang. Pearl River Delta Villages & Pacific Ports 1849-1949,” PhD Thesis (Univ. of Hong Kong, 2002)

 

David Ley and A. Kobayashi, “Back to Hong Kong: Return Migration or Transnational Sojourn?,” in Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs 5 (2004), pp. 111-127

 

Brettell, Caroline,  Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait. Population and History in a Portuguese Parish, (Princeton, 1986).

 

Roger Rouse, “Questions of Identity - Personhood and Collectivity in Transnational Migration to the United-States,” in Critique of Anthropology 15 (1995), pp. 351-380

 

Roger Rouse, “Making Sense of Settlement - Class Transformation, Cultural Struggle, and Transnationalism Among Mexican Migrants in the United States,” in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 645 (1992), pp. 25-52

 

Roger Rouse has a "classic" piece on migration as a kinship "circuit"  (I think it appeared in the journal Diaspora in the early nineties).

 

Samuel Baily and Franco Ramella (ed.), One Family, Two Worlds, a collection of letters from an Italian family in Argentina (New B runswick, 1988)

 

Charlotte Erickson, Invisible Immigrants: the adaptation of English and Scottish immigrants in nineteenth-century America (Coral Gables, 1972)

 

Witold Kula, et al., eds, Writing home--immigrants in Brazil and the United States, 1890-1891 (Boulder, 1986)

 

Alan Booth et al., Immigration and the family : research and policy on U.S. immigrants (Mahwah, 1997)

 

 

 

Week 8: November 22

 

PART A: Creating new milieus

 

Nicalas van Hear, New Diasporas; The mass exodus, dispersal and regrouping of migrant communities (London,  1998). Bookstore and Graduate Reserve

 

 

PART B: Cultures of diaspora

 

Adam McKeown, “Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 1842-1949,” in Journal of Asian Studies 58 (1999), pp. 306-37

 

Rainer Münzand Rainer Ohliger (eds), Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants.Germany, Israel and Post-Soviet Sucessor States (London, Portland,  2003).

 

Toby Osborne, "'Chimeres, monopoles and stratagems': French Exiles in the Spanish Netherlands during the Thirty Years' War",  in The Seventeenth Century (Autumn 2001)

 

Roger Ballard (ed.), Desh Pardesh; The South Asian Presence in Britain (London, 1994)

 

John A. Armstrong,  1976 “Mobilized and Proletarian Diasporas”, The American Political Science Review,  70 (1976), pp. 393-408.

 

Robin Cohen, “Diasporas and the Nation-State: From Victims to Challengers”, in International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs),  72 (1996), pp. 507-520.

 

Steven Vertovec and Robert Cohen (eds), Migration, Diasporas, and Transnationalism (Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, Ma, 1999)

 

Robin Cohen, Global Diasporas: An Introduction (London and Seattle, 1997 (2nd 2001)).

 

Darshan Singh Tatla,  1999 The Sikh Diaspora: The Search for Statehood (Seattle, 1999).

 

David Graham and Nana K. Poku (eds), Migration, Globalisation and Human Security, (London, 2000).

 

Steven Vertovec, The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns (2000)

 

Vic Satzewich,  The Ukranian Diaspora (London, 2001)

 

Donna R. Gabaccia, Italy’s Many Diasporas (London, 2000)

 

Mary Chamberlain, Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience (Transaction Publishers, 2005)

 

Parita Mukta, Shards of Memory: Woven Lives in Four Generations (London, 2002)

 

Mira Kamdar, Motiba’s Tattoos: A Granddaughter’s Journey from America into Her Indian Family’s Past (Plume Books, 2000)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 9: November 29

 

PART A: Who is a European?

 

Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers,  A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Maroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe (Baltimore and London, 2002). Bookstore and Graduate Reserve

 

 

PART B: Multi language families

 

Katrin Keller, “Sprachproblem der Habsburger und die Rolle von Frauen im Kulturtransfer,”  in Helmut Bräuer et al. (ed.), Viatori per urbes castraque. Festschrift Herwig Ebner (Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Geschichte Graz 14) (Graz 2003).

 

Katherine Walsh, “Verkaufte Töchter? Überlegungen zur Aufgabenstellung und zum Selbstwertgefühl von in die Ferne verheirateten Frauen anhand ihrer Korrespondenz,” in Jahrbuch des Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsvereins (1991)

 

Walter Michael Wuzella,  “Mehrsprachigkeit im höfischen Kontext. Untersuchungen zum Sprachgebrauch am Kaiserhof des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts,” Dipl.-Arbeit (Wien, 2001)

 

Ien Ang, “On Not speaking Chinese: Diasporic Identifications and Postmodern Ethnicity,” in Beyond Asia: Deconstructing Diaspora

 

Barbara  Petzen, “'Matmazels' nell'harem. Le governanti europee nell'Impero ottomano”, in Genesis, I/1 (2002), pp. 61-84.

 

 

 

Week 10: December 6

 

PART A: Cultures afloat

 

Anne Bang, Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860-1925 (London, 2003). Graduate Reserve

 

 

PART B: Cultural transfer

 

Wendy Wilson,  Madagascar in Virginia and Maryland: Family Stories and Written Histories, Madagascar Diaspora Project, Hanover, Virginia. Monograph (Forthcoming, April 2005)

 

Martha Hodes, “The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story,” in American Historical Review 108 (2003), pp. 84-118.

 

Leonard Blussé, Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century (Princeton, 2002)

 

Andrea Sommer-Mathis, “Ein picaro und spanisches Theater am Wiener Hof zur Zeit des Dreißigjährigen Krieges,” in Andreas Weigl (ed), Wien im Dreißigjährigen Krieg: Bevölkerung-Gesellschaft-Kultur-Konfession (Kulturstudien 32) (Wien-Köln-Weimar, 2001), pp 655-694.

 

Otto G. Schindler,  “`Die wälischen comedianten sein ja guet ...’ Die Anfänge des italienischen Theaters am Habsburgerhof,” in Václav Bůžek, Pavel Král (Hg.), Slavnosti a zábavy na dvorech a v rezidenčnich městech raného novověku (Opera historica 8) (České Budějovice, 2000), pp. 107-136

 

Otto G. Schindler, : “`Sonst ist es lustig alhie.’ Italienisches Theater am Habsburgerhof zwischen Weißem Berg und Sacco die Mantova,” in Andreas Weigl (Hg.), Wien im Dreißigjährigen Krieg: Bevölkerung-Gesellschaft-Kultur-Konfession (Kulturstudien 32) (Wien-Köln-Weimar, 2001), pp. 565-654

 

Otto G. Schindler, “Von Mantua nach Ödenburg: Die ungarische Krönung Eleonoras I. Gonzaga (1622) und die erste Oper am Kaiserhof: Ein unbekannter Bericht aus der Széchényi-Nationalbibliothek,” in Biblos 46/2 (1997), pp. 259-293

 

Henry Yu, “Writing the Past in the Present,” in Amerasian Journal 28 (2002), pp. xliii-liiii

 

Claude Markovits, et al. (eds), Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia 1750-1950 (2005)

 

Jacqueline Letzter, “Rubens in America: The Role of an Exiled Art Collection in the Creation of Belgian Cultural Consciousness (1794-1816), in Redistributions: Revolution, Politics, War and the Movement of Art 1789-1848 (Getty Research Institute and the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris)

 

G. Martinola, Lettere dai paesi transalpini degli artisti di Meride e dei villagi vicini (secc. XVII-XIX), Bellinzona, Dipartimento della Pubblica educazione del Canton Ticino, Opera per le fonti della storia patria (1963).

Raul Merzario, “Il notaio e l’emigrante. Il carteggio degli Oldelli di Meride (XVII secolo)”, in O. Besomi e C. Caruso (eds.), Cultura d’elite e cultura popolare nell’arco alpino tra Cinque e Seicento (Basel,  1995), pp. 233-244

 

Irene Hardach-Pinke, Die Gouvernante. Geschichte eines Frauenberufs (Frankfurt/Main,  1993).

 

Gianni Ricci, Ossessione turca. In una retrovia crisitana dell’Europa moderna (Bologna, 2002), pp. 90 ff.

Giuliana Boccadamo, “Schiavi e rinnegati capresi fra Barberia e Levante”, in Capri e l’Islam. Studi su Capri, il Mediterraneo, l’Oriente (Napoli,  2000, pp. 193-247 (in part. 224 ff).

 

Guenther, Max Webers deutsch-englische Familiengeschichte 1800-1950 (Tübingen, 2001