This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects.
Mobility-as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration transfer entanglement
and translation-involves human actors immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge but
also objects in various forms and functions. For example as material infrastructures they are
the basis for transport and travel as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift
exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their
social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes the contributors hope to
gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire Eastern Europe
and Persia.
