| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Connected histories in the early modern world |
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Connected histories in the early modern world.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Movement and Mobility in the Early Modern World : An Introduction -- Moving Bodies -- 1. Linguistic Encounter : Fynes Moryson and the Uses of Language -- 2. Wading Through the Mire : Mobility on the Grand Tour (1585-1750) -- 3. Travelling for Health : Medicine and Rural Mobility in Early Modern Spain -- Crossing Borders -- 4. Mobility and Danger on the Borders of the Papal States (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries) -- 5. News on the Road : The Mobility of Handwritten Newsletters in Early Modern Europe -- 6. Quarantine, Mobility, and Trade : Commercial Lazzarettos in the Early Modern Adriatic -- Global Networks -- 7. Devotion in Transit : Agnus Dei, Jesuit Missionaries, and Global Salvation in the Sixteenth Century -- 8. Getting to the Holy Land : Franciscan Journeys and Mediterranean Mobility -- 9. From Mount Lebanon to the Little Mount in Madras : Mobility and Catholic-Armenian Alms-Collecting Networks During the Eighteenth Century -- Index |
| Summary |
The case studies presented here chart the technologies and practices that both facilitated and impeded movement in diverse spheres of social activity such as communication, transport, politics, religion, medicine, and architecture. The chapters underscore the importance of the movement of people and objects through space and across distance to the dynamic economic, political, and cultural life of the early modern period |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- History
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Social mobility -- Europe -- History
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Human geography -- Europe -- History
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ARCHITECTURE / History / Renaissance
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Civilization, Modern
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Human geography
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Social mobility
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- History -- 1492- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045696
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nelles, Paul (Paul Neave), editor.
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Salzberg, Rosa, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789048552139 |
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9048552133 |
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