Mobility and biography / / herausgegeben von Sarah Panter

• Record Nr.: UNISA996308763503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 3-11-041516-X; 3-11-042393-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Collana: Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook ; ; Band 16
• Classificazione: NA 1000
• Disciplina: 305.513094
• Soggetti: Social mobility - Europe; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Mobility and Biography: Methodological Challenges and Perspectives / Panter, Sarah / Paulmann, Johannes / Szöllösi-Janze, Margit -- Jewish Mobility in the Eighteenth Century: Familial Networks of Ashkenazic Merchants across Europe / Aust, Cornelia -- Agents for the Rothschilds: A Nineteenth-Century Information Network / Liedtke, Rainer -- Hidden Helpers: Biographical Insights into Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Legal and Financial Advisors / Derix, Simone -- Triggers of Mobility: International Congresses (1840-1914) and their Visitors / Randeraad, Nico -- Mobility and Representation: Legislators of Non-European Origin in the British House of Commons, 2001-2015 / Geese, Lucas / Goldbach, Wolfgang / Saalfeld, Thomas -- Mobile Musicians: Paths of Migration in Early Modern Europe / Nieden, Gesa zur -- Mobility and Social Control: French Immigration in Geneva during the Belle Époque / Heiniger, Alix / David, Thomas -- Forum -- Beyond the Quest for a "Breakthrough": Reflections on the Recent Historiography on Human Rights / Brier, Robert -- List of Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.