By focusing on the way objects determined processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed by this, the contributions gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.
By focusing on the way objects determined processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed by this, the contributions gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.
This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility – as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement and translation – involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes, we hope to gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.
Dr Florian Riedler is a historian with a focus on the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. At present, he is the scientific coordinator of the priority program Transottomanica at the Universitiy of Leipzig. .
