1st Edition
Intimate Relationships Across Boundaries
Introduction: Intimate relationships across boundaries: global and comparative perspectives
Julia Moses and Julia Woesthoff
1. From faith to race? ‘Mixed marriage’ and the politics of difference in Imperial Germany
Julia Moses
2. ‘Mixt marriages’: Ethnic and Religious Intermarriage among German-Speakers in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania
Marie Basile McDaniel
3. Religious difference, nationhood and citizenship in Turkey: public reactions to an interreligious marriage in 1962
Sinem Adar
4. Regulating Dutch–Chinese marriages and relationships in the Netherlands (1920–1945)
Betty de Hart
5. Undesired intimacy: German–Chinese couples in Germany (1900s–1940s)
Christoph Lorke
6. ‘Not always logical’: binational/biracial marriages in Britain, 1900–1940
Ginger S. Frost
7. ‘Marrying light’: skin colour, gender and marriage in Jamaica, c. 1918–1980
Henrice Altink
8. Interracial marriages in twentieth-century Cape Town: evidence from Anglican marriage records
Johan Fourie and Kris Inwood
9. A ‘class of no political weight’? Interracial Marriage, Mixed Race Children and Land Rights in Southern New Zealand, 1840s-1880s
Angela Wanhalla and Kate Stevens
Biography
Julia Moses is Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK, and co-editor of Gender & History. Works include Civilizing Marriage: Family, Nation and State in the German Empire (forthcoming); The First Modern Risk: Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Social States (Cambridge, 2018) and Marriage, Law and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Julia Woesthoff is associate professor at DePaul University, USA. She has published a variety of articles related to questions of intermarriage between German Christian women and foreign Muslim men in postwar West Germany.
