{"product_id":"kinship-in-neckarhausen-1700-1870-paperback-9780521586573","title":"Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870 (Paperback) 9780521586573","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKinship in Neckarhausen, 1700–1870\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStudying one German village in depth, Sabean questions the idea that the more modern society became, the less kin mattered.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Warren Sabean (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521586573, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 December 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e658 pages, 131 b\/w illus.  159 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm, 0.87 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Powerful and thought-provoking, Sabean's work has once again clarified our 'thinking about past social processes.'\"   Journal of Social History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis work analyses shifts in the relations of families, households, and individuals in a single German village during the transition to a modern social structure and cultural order. The findings call into question the idea that the more modern society became, the less kin mattered. Rather, the opposite happened. During 'modernization', close kin developed a flexible set of exchanges, passing marriage partners, godparents, political favors, work contacts, and financial guarantees back and forth. Sabean also argues that the new kinship systems were fundamental for class formation, and he repositions women in the center of a political culture of alliance construction. One of a series of important local studies coming out of the Max Planck Institute for History, it is the most thorough-going attempt to work between the disciplines of social and cultural history and anthropology, and it demonstrates the power of microhistory to reconceptualize general historical trends.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: 1. An introduction to kinship\u003cbr\u003e 2. Vetterleswirtschaft: rise and fall of a political discourse\u003cbr\u003e 3. The politics of incest and the ecology of alliance formation\u003cbr\u003e Cohort I (1700–9): 4. Introduction to kinship during the early decades of the eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 5. Kinship as a factor in marriage strategy\u003cbr\u003e 6. Marriage and kinship practices\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ritual kinship\u003cbr\u003e 8. Naming children\u003cbr\u003e Cohort II (1740–9): 9. Restructuring the system of alliance\u003cbr\u003e 10. Village politics at mid-century\u003cbr\u003e Cohort III (1780–9): 11. Consanguinity as a principle of alliance\u003cbr\u003e 12. The formation of an alliance system\u003cbr\u003e 13. Ritual kinship and alternative alliance\u003cbr\u003e 14. Naming an patrilineal alliance\u003cbr\u003e Cohort IV (1820–9): 15. Kinship at the beginning of the nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 16. Kinship and practice at the turn of the century\u003cbr\u003e Cohort V (1860–9): 17. Kinship in the mid-nineteenth century village: an introduction\u003cbr\u003e 18. Networking with kin around the mid-nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 19. Matrifocal alliance\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: 20. Consanguinity in European perspective\u003cbr\u003e 21. Neckarhausen in European comparative perspective\u003cbr\u003e 22. Kinship and class formation\u003cbr\u003e 23. Kinship and gender.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913246236952,"sku":"9780521586573","price":45.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521586573i_fa1ad85f-210f-418b-b843-f01e9ff4736b.jpg?v=1691370086","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/kinship-in-neckarhausen-1700-1870-paperback-9780521586573","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}