Across the Danube: Southeastern Europeans and Their Travelling Identities (17th–19th C.)

Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Ph.D (1984), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, is Professor of Modern Greek History at the same university. She has published monographs, co-edited six collective volumes, and is the author of numerous articles on Greek Diaspora, Enlightenment, Migration, the European Idea, Family History, Economic History.Maria A. Stassinopoulou, Ph.D. (1990) and Habilitation (2001) at the University of Vienna, is Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the same university. She has published a monograph, co-edited five collective volumes, and is the author of numerous articles on Cultural and Intellectual History, Migration History, and Film Studies with a focus on Greece and Southeastern Europe.

Maria Christina Chatziioannou has written a book review in: Mnimon 35 (2016), 435-440, which can be read here.

• List of Illustrations ... viiIntroduction ... 1Olga Katsiardi-Hering and Maria A. StassinopoulouPart 1: Routes and Spaces1 Greek Immigrants in Central Europe: A Concise Study of Migration Routes from the Balkans to the Territories of the Hungarian Kingdom (From the Late 17th to the Early 19th Centuries) ... 25Ikaros Mantouvalos2 Migrations and the Creation of Orthodox Cultural and Artistic Networks between the Balkans and the Habsburg Lands (17th–19th Centuries) ... 54Nenad Makuljević3 Connecting Migration and Identities: Godparenthood, Surety and Greeks in the Russian Empire (18th – Early 19th Centuries) ... 65Iannis CarrasPart 2: Greeks in Vienna: A Close Reading4 Greek Migration in Vienna (18th – First Half of the 19th Century): A Success Story? ... 113Vaso Seirinidou5 Greek Presence in Habsburg Vienna: Heyday and Decline ... 135Anna Ransmayr6 Endowments as Instruments of Integration and Memory in an Urban Environment: The Panadi Building in Vienna ... 171Maria A. StassinopoulouPart 3: Old Settlements, Nation States, New Networks7 In Search of the Promised Land. Bulgarian Settlers in the Banat (18th–19th Centuries) ... 193Lyubomir Klimentov Georgiev8 ‘Chasing Away the Greeks’: The Prince-State and the Undesired Foreigners (Wallachia and Moldavia between the 16th and 18th Centuries) ... 215Lidia Cotovanu9 Foreign Migrant Communities in the Danubian Ports of Brăila and Galaţi (1829–1914) ... 253Constantin Ardeleanu10 From Tolerance to Exclusion? The Romanian Elites’ Stance towards Immigration to the Danubian Principalities (1829– 1880s) ... 275Dimitrios M. KontogeorgisSelected Bibliography ... 303Index ... 315