ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Agents of Logistics and Infrastructure in Eighteenth Century Alpine Transit Traffic
ALPINNKONNECT centres on operating trans-European commercial traffic as engine and manifestation of eighteenth-century prosperity. The project focuses on the interplay of agents, material prerequisites and natural impacts along main Alpine transit routes, applying an approach of socio-material-natural interconnectedness. It advances the hypothesis that transportation required a broad participation to cope with the enormous efforts and provided an important source of income. Hence, seen through the lens of transit traffic, new light will be shed on local social fabrics. Among the key figures, ALPine INNKeepers acted as cONNECTing agents and inns operated as multipurpose hubs of transit…
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