Cover illustrations: (central image) Das Glück ist unbeständig in Zeter Jacob de, Speculum virtutum & vitiorum, Darinnen nicht allein Tugend und Erbarkeit/ Zucht und gute Sitten/ Wie auch Laster/ und Untugend/ sondern auch der Welt mores, artig und anmühtig/ Beydes durch Kunstreiche Kupffer/ als auch artige Teutsche Historische und Moralische Reimen werden abgemahlet und fürgebildet (Frankfurt a.M., Jacob de Zetter: 1644), fol. 20v (Ex. HAB Wolfenbüttel M: Lo 8314, emblematica online); (background image) Baur Johann Wilhelm, Two sailing ships lifted by the waves during a storm (1640). Engraving, h 10.9 cm × w 15.0 cm.
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Names: Zwierlein, Cornel, editor, author.
Title: The power of the dispersed : early modern global travelers beyond integration / edited by Cornel Zwierlein.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] | Series: Intersections, interdisciplinary studies in modern culture 1568–1181 ; volume 77 (2021) | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021043046 (print) | LCCN 2021043047 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004412484 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004140721 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Cultural relations—History. | Travelers—Attitudes. | International relations—History. | Travel—Psychological aspects. | Travel—Social aspects. | Travel—History. | Identity (Psychology) | Emigration and immigration.
Classification: LCC D299 .P68 2022 (print) | LCC D299 (ebook) | DDC 303.48/2—dc23
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