scholarly journals Book Review - Annemarie Steidl, On Many Routes: Internal, European, and Transatlantic Migration in the Late Habsburg Empire; West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University Press, 2021, 344 pp.

Two Homelands ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miha Zobec
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Migration History ◽  
Human Movements ◽  
The University

Simplistic notions of understanding human mobility have long burdened migration studies. Often, such notions relied on categorizations imported from state apparatuses. As a result, migration scholars have treated human movements in a binary and exclusive fashion, dividing between seasonal and permanent, legal and illegal, and most notably between internal and international migration. Building on recent scholarship that has challenged these shortcomings, in her most recent book, Annemarie Steidl draws on the area of the Habsburg Empire to demonstrate the complex and multifaceted character of migrations. Steidl, a distinguished migration scholar and professor at the Department of Social and Economic History at the University of Vienna, has chiefly applied quantitative analysis to explain migration history in her numerous publications.

scholarly journals Migration and World History: Reaching a New Frontier

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Lucassen
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Migration History ◽  
Significant Phenomenon ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

Migration history has made some major leaps forward in the last fifteen years or so. An important contribution was Leslie Page Moch's Moving Europeans, published in 1992, in which she weaves the latest insights in migration history into the general social and economic history of western Europe. Using Charles Tilly's typology of migration patterns and his ideas on the process of proletarianization since the sixteenth century, Moch skilfully integrates the experience of human mobility in the history of urbanization, labour relations, (proto)industrialization, demography, family history, and gender relations. Her state-of-the-art overview has been very influential, not least because it fundamentally criticizes the modernization paradigm of Wilbur Zelinsky and others, who assumed that only in the nineteenth century, as a result of industrialization and urbanization, migration became a significant phenomenon. Instead, she convincingly argues that migration was a structural aspect of human life. Since then many new studies have proved her point and refined her model.

scholarly journals Book Review: Literature and Politics Today: The Political Nature of Modern Fiction and Drama

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Shannon Pritting
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
The Political ◽  
University Of Arkansas ◽  
Politics And Literature ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
The University

The editor, M. Keith Booker, Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, has served as editor on many reference works in literature as well as many books on genres and literary movements, specific authors, and other critical works. Booker also edited the last reference work dedicated to literature and politics, Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Evolution, and Writing, a three-volume set published in 2005 by Greenwood, which is surprisingly the only current reference work dedicated solely to examining the connection between literature and politics. There are many recent book-length critical works on literature and politics, but these monographs typically focus on a genre or other refined topic such as a literary movement or single author. The compact single-volume Literature and Politics Today is a welcome addition to reference work in literature and politics. Certainly, other reference works in literary criticism cover some of the topics related to the intersection of politics and literature, but do not have the political focus of Literature and Politics Today.

Science, Race, and Empire

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 41-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Gingrich
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
World War ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
History Museum ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Unified Field ◽  
The University ◽  
Formal Establishment

This overview of academic ethnography in the last decades of the Habsburg Empire is given through the example of Vienna as the Empire’s capital. Ethnography is scrutinized in its main dimensions through the four decades from the 1870s till after the end of World War i. Main trends, crucial phases, and key actors are identified and characterized to assess the roles of notions of race and racism. The overall period is marked by the emergence and formal establishment of an internally heterogeneous academic discipline called “Anthropologie und Ethnographie” (anthropology and ethnography). This took place along three main phases with different priorities and main actors. During that period, “Anthropologie und Ethnographie” was perceived as a more or less unified field of research—in institutional terms at first at the natural history museum since its opening in 1876, and later also at the University of Vienna as of 1912/13.

Book Review: Constitutionalizing the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis – Legality, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Reconsidered

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 402-403
Author(s):  
João Carlos Jarochinski Silva
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Community People ◽  
The University

Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis, Legality, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Reconsidered, Edited by Sergio Carrera, Juan Santos Vara and Tineke Strik, London, 2019, 336 p. ISBN: PB: 978 1 78897 247 5. Reviewed by João Carlos Jarochinski Silva. The book edited by Sergio Carrera, Juan Santos Vara and Tineke Strik brings essential contributions to two of the most critical challenges of the European Union today: the decrease in integration and the breakdown of institutionalism in the face of human mobility of extra-community people. Stemming from a workshop held in 2017 at the University of Salamanca, it is divided into two parts. The first, EU External Migration Policies: New and old dynamics, which has six articles; and the second, EU crisis-led patterns of cooperation in light of the EU rule of law, which is composed of nine articles. In addition to these fifteen articles, the editors wrote an introductory chapter.

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