Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Mobility and Biography: Methodological Challenges and Perspectives 1
4. Jewish Mobility in the Eighteenth Century: Familial Networks of Ashkenazic Merchants across Europe 15
5. Agents for the Rothschilds: A Nineteenth-Century Information Network 33
6. Hidden Helpers: Biographical Insights into Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Legal and Financial Advisors 47
7. Triggers of Mobility: International Congresses (1840–1914) and their Visitors 63
8. Mobility and Representation: Legislators of Non-European Origin in the British House of Commons, 2001–2015 83
9. Mobile Musicians: Paths of Migration in Early Modern Europe 111
10. Mobility and Social Control: French Immigration in Geneva during the Belle Époque 131
11. Forum
12. Beyond the Quest for a “Breakthrough”: Reflections on the Recent Historiography on Human Rights 155
13. List of Contributors 175