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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.
Volume Editor: Sarah Panter
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Contents
Sarah Panter, Johannes Paulmann and Margit Szöllösi-Janze: Mobility and Biography: Methodological Challenges and Perspectives
Cornelia Aust: Jewish Mobility in the Eighteenth Century: Familial Networks of Ashkenazic Merchants across Europe
Rainer Liedtke: Agents for the Rothschilds: A Nineteenth-Century Information Network
Simone Derix: Hidden Helpers: Biographical Insights into Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Legal and Financial Advisors
Nico Randeraad: Triggers of Mobility: International Congresses (1840–1914) and their Visitors
Lucas Geese, Wolfgang Goldbach and Thomas Saalfeld: Mobility and Representation: Legislators of Non-European Origin in the British House of Commons, 2001–2015
Gesa zur Nieden: Mobile Musicians: Paths of Migration in Early Modern Europe
Alix Heiniger and Thomas David: Mobility and Social Control: French Immigration in Geneva during the Belle Époque
Forum
Robert Brier: Beyond the Quest for a “Breakthrough”: Reflections on the Recent Historiography on Human Rights
List of Contributors