Launch of Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past (2019)

Professor  Dan Carey will launch this new volume of essays edited by Dr. Róisín Healy of the History Department. A reception will follow.

This edited collection reveals the enormous diversity of journeys taken into, out of and around modern Russia and central and eastern Europe by means of twelve case studies. These range from the flight of serfs from Russia to Poland-Lithuania on foot in the eighteenth century to adventure tourists from Britain exploring Russia on motor-bikes since the turn of the new millennium. Taken together, the essays challenge Orientalist stereotypes of the region as characterised by stasis and emphasise that travel was by no means limited to elites, but experienced by ordinary people, including peasants, women and those living in peripheral locations. https://www.routledge.com/Mobility-in-the-Russian-Central-and-East-European-Past-1st-Edition/Healy/p/book/9781138354524