Transottoman Biographies, 16th-20th c.

How did Transottoman mobility impact people's biographies?

For centuries, people moved between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Iran. This book studies the biographies of individuals and groups as different as rulers and revolutionaries, frontier bandits and merchants, soldiers and slaves from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Following their journeys across borders, the case studies of this volume emphasize the profound effect that mobility had on the lives and thoughtworlds of everyone with a Transottoman trajectory. The chapters reveal breaks, adjustments, and continuities in people's biographies and the in-betweenness that moving typically created.

Auteur
Dr Veruschka Wagner is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and a Researcher at Bonn University. Andreas Helmedach ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Geisteswissenschaftlichen Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas in Leipzig. Sein Spezialgebiet ist die ostmittel- und südosteuropäische Geschichte. Dr. Denise Klein is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and a Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. Dr. Anna Vlachopoulou is a historian of Ottoman Southeastern Europe and a Researcher at the LMU Munich.

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This book studies the impact of mobility on the lives of people who moved between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Iran from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, through the lens of their biographies. Depending on who moved where and their circumstances, mobility could mean brutal uprooting or homecoming; a loss of freedom or the opening of new opportunities; marginalization or a path to wealth and power. Beyond the individual level, Transottoman biographies inform us about the local societies that both shaped and were shaped by mobile people. Mobile biographies show the entanglements between different regions and empires and make comprehensible what this specifically meant for the people on the ground.