The Peregrine Profession - Transnational Mobility of Nordic Engineers and Architects, 1880-1930

In The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Grönberg offers an account of transnational mobility of engineers and architects educated in the Nordic countries 1880-1919. These graduates constituted an extraordinary mobile group, that often returned home and became important for Nordic industrialisation.

About the author

Per-Olof Grönberg, Ph.D. (Umeå, 2003) is Assistant Professor of History at Luleå University of Technology. He has published on engineers, historical demography, and different aspects of migration history, including 'Desirable Skills?' (Grönberg, Lundh Nilsson & Sandström, Labor History, 2015).

Product details

• Authors: Per-Olof Grönberg
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2018
• EAN: 9789004366473
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36647-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories