Makeshift freedom seekers: Dutch travellers in Europe, 1815-1914
This thesis questions a series of assumptions concerning the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century modernization of European spaces. Current scholarship tends to concur with essayistic texts and images by contemporary intellectuals that technological and organizational developments increased the freedom of movement of those living in western-European societies, while at the same time alienating them from each other and from their environment. I assess this claim with the help of Dutch travel egodocuments such as travel diaries and letters. After a prosopographical investigation of all availa... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Abschlussarbeit |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Schlagwörter: | History of material culture / Material anthropology / Europe / History of technology / Geography & travel / Intellectual History / History / Landscape / Gender / Commerce / communications / transport / International / imperial and global history / Transnationalism / Economic and Social History / National identity / Modern Britain and Europe |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26663748 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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