Changing subjects, moving objects : status, mobility, and social transformation in southeastern Europe, 1700-1850

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Full Title:: Changing subjects, moving objects : status, mobility, and social transformation in southeastern Europe, 1700-1850 / by Constanţa Vintilă
Series Titles:: Balkan studies library ; v. 31
Balkan studies library ; v. 31.

Genre:: Biographies
Electronic books
Subjects:: Phanariots--Biography
Transnationalism--History--18th century
Transnationalism--History--19th century
Balkan Peninsula--Biography
Balkan Peninsula--History--18th century
Balkan Peninsula--History--19th century

Table of Contents:: Foreign Secretaries and Phanariot Princes -- Princely Secretary François-Thomas Linchou -- Phanariots and Boyars at the Borders of Empires -- A Wallachian Dignitary at the Crossroads of Empires: Ianache Văcărescu -- Ottomans, Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks, Wallachians, Moldavians: Subjects, Protégés, and Their Journeys Through the Empires -- Dimitrie Foti Merișescu and His Journey -- Women and Their Well-Being -- Women and Their Role in a Network: A Wife and Her Husband’s Career: The Hartulari Family.
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:: This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age. Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the aid of many new sources, readers discover how certain men and women defined and adapted their loyalties and affiliations, how they fashioned their identities, how they enrolled their linguistic, political, economic, and social resources to build a family and a career. Travelling between Istanbul, Vienna, Trieste, Moscow, Bucharest, or Iaşi, individuals of different backgrounds built their networks across borders, linking people and objects and facilitating cultural transfer and material and social change.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource
Local Note:: Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.