TRANSIMPERIALPASTS - Research line: Agency and identities

Agency and identities

Research line

Anti-Semitic caricature on the occasion of the Stock Exchange crash of 1873, from Kikeriki of 18 May 1873

How were notions of human agency and definitions of individual and collective selfhood affected by the epochal challenges each of these 5 empires faced? The research will address this issue in its close connection with the rise of modern citizenship.