Kinship, Community, and Self: Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean(9 Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association)

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 Staël 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