Armenians on the Move: THE CELALI UPRISINGS, THE SHAH ‘ABBAS I DEPORTATIONS, AND THE MAKING OF ARMENIAN EARLY MODERNITY

As Timothy Brook has outlined in Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, mobility on a global scale—much more sustained than ever before, faster, and covering a wider arc of connections—was a principal feature of the early modern world and of the seventeenth century in particular. For Brook, “more people were in motion over longer distances and sojourning away from home for longer periods of time than at any other time in human history.”¹ Other scholars of world history have also highlighted “the common factor of mobility” and forced migration as key hallmarks