Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570-1940 - Paperback

by Christina Reimann (Editor), Martin Öhman (Editor)

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built environment, the sociocultural milieu, and contemporary representations of these spaces. Port cities, in turn, conditioned the lives of these mobile people.

Author Biography

Christina Reimann is a researcher at Stockholm University and at Södertörn University.

Martin Öhman is a researcher at Gothenburg University.