Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570-1940 Reimann Christina
Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570-1940 Reimann Christina This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and…
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Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570-1940 Reimann Christina
This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and port cities. Commercial goods, people, animals, seeds, bacteria and viruses; technological and scientific knowledge and fashions all arrived in, and moved through, these microcosms of the global. Throughout the ages of sail and steam, port cities served as nodes of long-distance transmissions and exchanges.
Port cities, in turn, conditioned the lives of these mobile people, be they seafarers, traders, passers-through, or people in search of a new home. Migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built environment, the particular sociocultural milieu, and contemporary representations of these spaces. By focusing on migrants-their actions and how they were acted upon-the authors seek to capture the contradictions and complexities that characterized port