Lecture: "The age of wheels"
The age of wheels: Mobility, transport and vigilance in Europe’s age of horse-drawn carriages (1500–1900)
In tonight’s lecture, Professor Daniel Jütte (New York University), currently a Mercator Fellow in the CRC 1369 Cultures of Vigilance, will talk about the research he conducted for a book project on urban mobility and vigilance in the early modern period.
Jütte’s primary focus is on the spread of horse-drawn carriages and other four-wheeled vehicles in European cities from the 16th century onward, and on the huge economic, social, cultural and gender-specific impacts of this development.
Importantly, new forms of urban and social mobility were accompanied by new urban vigilance practices. Throughout this entire period, however, these practices maintained an ambivalent relationship to the many and varied conflicts that arose from the transformation of urban transportation and everyday life.
For more information, please visit the CRC Cultures of Vigilance website.