Mobility and Biography

by Sarah Panter (Editor)

Overview

The subject of transnational lives has only recently gained importance in historical research. With its transnational approach to “mobility and biography,” this volume brings together research on aspects of mobility and biography across different times and spaces to open up new interdisciplinary perspectives. Networks, movements and the capacity to become socially or spatially mobile in and across Europe are not only analysed as structural factors, but rather seen as connected to concrete practices of mobility among different groups in the spheres of business, politics and the arts: from Jewish merchants via legal and financial advisors all the way to musicians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110415155
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	11/27/2015
Pages:	181
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sarah Panter, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte

Table of Contents

Mobility and Biography: Methodological Challenges and Perspectives Sarah Panter Johannes Paulmann Margit Szöllösi-Janze 1

Jewish Mobility in the Eighteenth Century: Familial Networks of Ashkenazic Merchants across Europe Cornelia Aust 15

Agents for the Rothschilds: A Nineteenth-Century Information Network Rainer Liedtke 33

Hidden Helpers: Biographical Insights into Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Legal and Financial Advisors Simone Derix 47

Triggers of Mobility: International Congresses (1840-1914) and their Visitors Nico Randeraad 63

Mobility and Representation: Legislators of Non-European Origin in the British House of Commons, 2001-2015 Lucas Geese Wolfgang Goldbach Thomas Saalfeld 83

Mobile Musicians: Paths of Migration in Early Modern Europe Gesa zur Nieden 111

Mobility and Social Control: French Immigration in Geneva during the Belle Époque Alix Heiniger Thomas David 131

Forum

Beyond the Quest for a "Breakthrough": Reflections on the Recent Historiography on Human Rights Robert Brier 155

List of Contributors 175