Book ID: CBB630166913

Migration, mobility and place in ancient Italy (2017)

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Elena Isayev (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 521
Language: English

Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. It argues that much human mobility in the last millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In particular, outside the military context "the foreigner in our midst" was not regarded as a problem. Boundaries of status rather than of geopolitics were those difficult to cross. The book discusses the stories of individuals and migrant groups, traders, refugees, expulsions, the founding and demolition of sites, and the political processes that could both encourage and discourage the transfer of people from one place to another. In so doing it highlights moments of change in the concepts of mobility and the definitions of those on the move. By providing the long view from history, it exposes how fleeting are the conventions that take shape here and now.

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Review Lien Foubert (August 2019) Review of "Migration, mobility and place in ancient Italy". The Journal of Transport History (pp. 281-282). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Christopher Leffler
Lenka Krátká
Steel, Frances
Patrícia Matos
Elisenda Ardévol
Howard, Christopher
Concepts
Mobility
Travel
Transportation
Globalization; internationalization
Technology and society
Ethnography
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Ancient
19th century
17th century
Places
United States
Rome (Italy)
Australia
Asia
Great Britain
Dakar
Institutions
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
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