Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement

The book explores movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world, challenging the notion of static and self-contained pre-modern cultures. It highlights the interconnected material, social, and cultural dimensions of mobility and its impact on various spheres of social activity. The case studies provide insights into the technologies and practices that facilitated and impeded movement, emphasizing its significance for the dynamic economic, political, and cultural life of the period.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 14 February 2023
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

The book explores the panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world, challenging the notion of static and self-contained pre-modern cultures. It highlights the increasing flows of people and goods in Europe from the Middle Ages onwards, connecting the continent more closely to other parts of the world. Through the study of the inter-connected material, social, and cultural dimensions of mobility, the book challenges dominant notions of the fixed, immobile nature of pre-modern cultures. The case studies presented chart the technologies and practices that facilitated and impeded movement in diverse spheres of social activity, including 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.

Weight: 548g
Dimension: 163 x 243 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789463729239