Changing Subjects, Moving Objects Status, Mobility, and Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe, 1700-1850

This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age.Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the aid of many new sources, readers discover how certain men and women defined and...

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Other Authors: Vintilă-Ghițulescu, Constanța, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Paderborn, Germany : Brill Schöningh [2022]
Edition:First edition
Series:Balkan studies library ; Volume 31.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009758531006719
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Summary:This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age.Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the aid of many new sources, readers discover how certain men and women defined and adapted their loyalties and affiliations, how they fashioned their identities, how they enrolled their linguistic, political, economic, and social resources to build a family and a career. Travelling between Istanbul, Vienna, Trieste, Moscow, Bucharest, or Iaşi, individuals of different backgrounds built their networks across borders, linking people and objects and facilitating cultural transfer and material and social change.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.