The power of the dispersed : early modern global travelers beyond integration / edited by Cornel Zwierlein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zwierlein, Cornel, editor.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 77.

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 77 - 2022

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural relations--History.

Cultural relations.

Travelers--Attitudes.

Travelers.

International relations--History.

International relations.

History.

Travel--Psychological aspects.

Travel.

Travel--Social aspects.

Travel--History.

Identity (Psychology).

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 513 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"Early Modern travelers often did not form part of classic 'diaspora' communities: they frequently never really settled, perhaps remaining abroad for some time in one place, then traveling further: not 'blown by the wind', but by changing and complex conditions that often turned out to make them unwelcome anywhere. The dispersed developed strategies of survival by keeping their distance from old and new temporary 'homes', and by manipulating, shaping, using information and foreign representations of their former country and situation. The volume assembles case studies from the Mediterranean context, the Americas and Japan. They ask for what kind of 'power(s)' and agency dispersed people had, counterintuitively, through the connections they maintained with their former homes, and through those they established abroad. Contributors include: Eduardo Angione, Iordan Avramov, Marloes Cornelissen, David Do Paço, José Luis Egío, Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi, Paula Manstetten, Simon Mills, David Nelson, Adolfo Polo y La Borda, Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Cesare Santus, Stefano Saracino, and Cornel Zwierlein"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

Note on the editor

Notes on the contributors

Introduction / Cornel Zwierlein

In parte d'infedeli: a papal informant in Istanbul (1607-1608) / Edoardo Angione

The album Amicorum of the Athonite monk Theoklitos Polyeidis and the agency of perambulating Greek alms collectors in the Holy Roman Empire (18th Century) / Stefano Saracino

The great imposture: Eastern Christian rogues and counterfeiters in Rome, c. 17th-19th centuries / Cesare Santus

Nomads in the early modern republic of letters: the transient correspondents of Henry Oldenburg and the Early Royal Society of London / Iordan Avramov

Travelling scholastics: the emergence of an empirical normative authority in early modern Spanish America / José Luis Egío

Johann Heinrich Callenberg's Orient / Simon Mills

Solomon Negri: the self-fashioning of an Arab Christian in early modern Europe / Paula Manstetten

From erstwhile captive to cultural erudite: the career of Korean-born Samurai, Wakita Kyūbei / David Nelson

Stories of Spanish captivity in Istanbul: from trauma to empowerment / Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez

Between America and the Maghrib: the Marquis of Varinas and the weapons of the exile / Adolfo Polo y La Borda

In the blind spot of the state: Trieste in the 18th-century trans-imperial Adriatic Society / David Do Paço

Religious feeling and the construction of a merchant's identity in the Greek trade networks of the late eighteenth century / Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi

From Bern with love: the spy with a taste for the exquisite in early modern Istanbul / Marloes Cornelissen

Dispersed things: European merchant households in the Levant / Cornel Zwierlein

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Power of the dispersed

ISBN:

9789004412484

9004412484

OCLC:

1272882377