Historicizing Migration and Displacement: Learning from the Early Roman Empire in the Time of the Nation-State. Response to Lachenicht, Susanne. Learning from Past Displacements? The History of Migrations between Historical Specificity, Presentism and Fractured Continuities. <i>Humanities</i> 2018, <i>7</i>, 36

My response to Susanne Lachenicht’s thought-provoking article is a brief attempt to take up her call to write histories that lead not to absolute certainties but to more understanding of the complexities of the past. I focus on documentation, border control, and citizenship in the Early Roman Empire...

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Main Author: George Baroud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/2/36