European NetIAS Lectures Series: Talk by Constantin Ardeleanu
Cruising Through Europe’s South-Eastern Periphery in the Nineteenth Century: Steamships, the Transportation-Communication Revolution and ‘Social Media’
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Speaker: Constantin Ardeleanu, The Lower Danube University of Galați and Long-term Fellow, New Europe College, Bucharest (Romania)
Abstract
The advent of steamships on the world's rivers and seas revolutionized economic, political, and cultural realities wherever they started plying. Steamships served as agents of modernization that galvanized regional and global mobility with their ability to convey passengers and cargo relatively inexpensively, rapidly, and safely. This paper aims to turn steamships into arenas of global history and explore the social dimension of cruising by looking at the sociality engendered by the coming of the transportation revolution to the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean. While gliding along a politically disputed borderland that separated - and connected - the Austrian, Ottoman, and Russian empires, steamships themselves became busy platform where voyagers from all corners of the globe engaged in various social exchanges.
This event is part of the European NetIAS Lectures Series: Knowledge in the Digital Age. Read more here.
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Meeting ID: 828 2096 7469
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