Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe
Early modern Europe was obsessed with borders and travel. It found, imagined and manufactured new borders for its travellers to cross. It celebrated and feared borders as places or states where meanings were charged and changed. In early modern Europe crossing a border could take many forms; sailing to the Americas, visiting a hospital or taking a trip through London's sewage system. Borders were places that people lived on, through and against. Some were temporary, like illness, while others claimed to be absolute, like that between the civilized world and the savage, but, as the chapters in this volume show, to cross any of them was an exci…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-95492-1
- EAN: 9781351954921
- Produktnummer: 22638008
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'001 KB
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Dr Thomas Betteridge is from Oxford Brookes University, UK.
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