Lebensbeschreibung Des Johann Hausschein, Genannt Oekolampadius. (German Edition) - 9780300204230

This book tells the story of how people experienced the eighteenth-century crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, exploring the transformative journey undertaken by the thousands of Europeans who journeyed in search of a better life. Stephen Berry shows how the ships, on which passengers were contained in close quarters for months at a time, operated as compressed frontiers," where diverse groups encountered one another and established new patterns of social organization. As he argues that experiences aboardship served as a profound conversion experience for travelers, both spiritually and culturally, Berry reframes the history of Atlantic migrations, giving the ocean and the ship a more prominent role in Atlantic history. The ocean was more than a backdropfor human events: it actively shaped historical experiences by furnishing a dissociative break from normal patterns of life and a formative stage in travelers' processes of collective identification"--

• | Author: Stephen Russell Berry
• | Publisher: Wentworth Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 13, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Language: German
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 030020423X
• | ISBN-13: 9780300204230