The Power of the Dispersed
Early Modern Global Travelers beyond Integration
Published on 16. December 2021
Book
Hardback
532 pages
978-90-04-41248-4 (ISBN)
Description
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,' as well as by using information from and manipulating foreign representations of their former countries.
This volume assembles case studies from the Mediterranean context, the Americas and Japan. They explore 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: Eduardo Angione, Iordan Avramov, Marloes Cornelissen, David Do Paco, Jose Luis Egio, Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi, Paula Manstetten, Simon Mills, David Nelson, Adolfo Polo y La Borda, Ana M. Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Cesare Santus, Stefano Saracino, and Cornel Zwierlein.
This volume assembles case studies from the Mediterranean context, the Americas and Japan. They explore 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: Eduardo Angione, Iordan Avramov, Marloes Cornelissen, David Do Paco, Jose Luis Egio, Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi, Paula Manstetten, Simon Mills, David Nelson, Adolfo Polo y La Borda, Ana M. Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Cesare Santus, Stefano Saracino, and Cornel Zwierlein.
Reviews / Votes
"This book provokes a strong reflection on the work of historians. It reminds us that we tend to see stories from one point of view, and that we choose some kind of sources and not others. In this way The Power opens, or reopens, a line of investigation where the topic is not only the people of the past but also the work of historians and their way of looking at the past." - Enrica Guerra, University of Ferrara, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Winter 2023), pp. 1515-1516More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Height: 242 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1124 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-41248-4 (9789004412484)
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Cornel Zwierlein teaches early modern history and conducts research on a Heisenberg Fellowship at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Friedrich-Meinecke Institut. His latest monographs are: The Political Thought of the French League and Rome, 1585-1589 (Droz, 2016); Imperial Unknowns: The French and the British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2016); Politische Theorie und Herrschaft in der Fruehen Neuzeit (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), and Prometheus Tamed (Brill, 2021).
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Note on the Editor
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
?Cornel Zwierlein
Part 1: Dispersed in Ecclesiastical and Diplomatic Networks
1 In Parte d'Infedeli: A Papal Informant in Istanbul (1607-1608)
?Edoardo Angione
2 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
3 The Great Imposture: Eastern Christian Rogues and Counterfeiters in Rome, c. 17th-19th Centuries
?Cesare Santus
Part 2: Dispersed in the Republic of Letters
4 Nomads in the Early Modern Republic of Letters: The Transient Correspondents of Henry Oldenburg and the Early Royal Society of London
?Iordan Avramov
5 Travelling Scholastics: The Emergence of an Empirical Normative Authority in Early Modern Spanish America
?Jose Luis Egio
6 Johann Heinrich Callenberg's Orient
?Simon Mills
7 Solomon Negri: The Self-Fashioning of an Arab Christian in Early Modern Europe
?Paula Manstetten
Part 3: Dispersed by War
8 From Erstwhile Captive to Cultural Erudite: The Career of Korean-Born Samurai, Wakita Kyubei
?David Nelson
9 Stories of Spanish Captivity in Istanbul: From Trauma to Empowerment
?Ana M. Rodriguez-Rodriguez
10 Between America and the Maghrib: The Marquis of Varinas and the Weapons of the Exile
?Adolfo Polo y La Borda
Part 4: Dispersed in Commercial and Political Networks
11 In the Blind Spot of the State: Trieste in the 18th-Century Trans-Imperial Adriatic Society
?David Do Paco
12 Religious Feeling and the Construction of a Merchant's Identity in the Greek Trade Networks of the Late Eighteenth Century
?Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi
13 From Bern with Love: The Spy with a Taste for the Exquisite in Early Modern Istanbul
?Marloes Cornelissen
14 Dispersed Things: European Merchant Households in the Levant
?Cornel Zwierlein
Index Rerum
Index Locorum
Index Nominum
List of Illustrations
Note on the Editor
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
?Cornel Zwierlein
Part 1: Dispersed in Ecclesiastical and Diplomatic Networks
1 In Parte d'Infedeli: A Papal Informant in Istanbul (1607-1608)
?Edoardo Angione
2 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
3 The Great Imposture: Eastern Christian Rogues and Counterfeiters in Rome, c. 17th-19th Centuries
?Cesare Santus
Part 2: Dispersed in the Republic of Letters
4 Nomads in the Early Modern Republic of Letters: The Transient Correspondents of Henry Oldenburg and the Early Royal Society of London
?Iordan Avramov
5 Travelling Scholastics: The Emergence of an Empirical Normative Authority in Early Modern Spanish America
?Jose Luis Egio
6 Johann Heinrich Callenberg's Orient
?Simon Mills
7 Solomon Negri: The Self-Fashioning of an Arab Christian in Early Modern Europe
?Paula Manstetten
Part 3: Dispersed by War
8 From Erstwhile Captive to Cultural Erudite: The Career of Korean-Born Samurai, Wakita Kyubei
?David Nelson
9 Stories of Spanish Captivity in Istanbul: From Trauma to Empowerment
?Ana M. Rodriguez-Rodriguez
10 Between America and the Maghrib: The Marquis of Varinas and the Weapons of the Exile
?Adolfo Polo y La Borda
Part 4: Dispersed in Commercial and Political Networks
11 In the Blind Spot of the State: Trieste in the 18th-Century Trans-Imperial Adriatic Society
?David Do Paco
12 Religious Feeling and the Construction of a Merchant's Identity in the Greek Trade Networks of the Late Eighteenth Century
?Maria-Tsampika Lampitsi
13 From Bern with Love: The Spy with a Taste for the Exquisite in Early Modern Istanbul
?Marloes Cornelissen
14 Dispersed Things: European Merchant Households in the Levant
?Cornel Zwierlein
Index Rerum
Index Locorum
Index Nominum