cal ideologies, their associations organized, so to speak, political mobility. Along with its traditional significance for labour-market regulation and professional advance, journeyman wandering now took on political relevance, too. 2.The modern ideologies now penetrating “from without" into the local scene were adapted to whatever were the local circumstances. Liberalism and socialism did not simply take over the regional or local scene, but were rather, under certain conditions, tolerated and accepted. The alpine region was not homogenized as a result of the social effects of industrialization and market integration, but rather varied by transformation’s cultural multiplicity.
HERMANN J. W. KUPRIAN, "REFUGEES AND EXPELLED PERSONS IN THE ALPS DURING WORLD WAR I"
Vast spaces of alpine territory were, during World War I, affected directly or indirectly by a mass emigration, hitherto unknown in history, which until our times has hardly been investigated as to its political, economic, social and mental effects. Nevertheless it can be proved that this mobility, let loose by warfare, not only worsened the latent problems in the multi-national Habsburg monarchy, but also affected the relations among the countries forming the new republic of Austria and effected in foreign policy the bilateral relations of post-war Europe. Even though, in the meantime, the alpine borders have become less problematic, the psychological effects of this historical development still remain evident to this day.
SABINE SCHWEITZER, "... AND THEN WE MOVED OUT ON THE PERCEPTION OF THE OPTION AND RESETTLEMENT OF SOUTH TYROLEANS"
The purpose of the present essay is a “thick description’’ of the autobiographical perspectives of South Tyroleans involved in the so-called option of 1939 and the subsequent re-settlement by means of life-story interviews. The aim is to reconstruct the “life spheres’’ (Lebenswelten) of the persons
