Cultures in contact : world migrations in the second millennium / Dirk Hoerder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoerder, Dirk.

Series:

Comparative and international working-class history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Migrations.

Human beings.

Migrations of nations--History.

Migrations of nations.

Acculturation--History.

Acculturation.

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 779 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

World migrations in the second millennium

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.

Contents:

1. Worlds in motion, cultures in contact

Part I: The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds to the 1500s

2. Antecedents: migration and population changes in the Mediterranean-Asian worlds

3. Continuities: mobility and migration from the eleventh to the sixteenth century

4. The end of intercivilizational contact and the economics of religious expulsions

5. Ottoman society, Europe, and the beginnings of colonial contact

Part II: Other worlds and European colonialism to the eighteenth century

6. Africa and the slave migration systems

7. Trade-posts and colonies in the world of the Indian Ocean

8. Latin America: population collapse and resettlement

Fur empires and colonies of agricultural settlement

10. Forced labor migration in and to the Americas

11. Migration and conversion: worldviews, material culture, racial hierarchies

Part 3: Intercontinental migration systems to the nineteenth century

12. Europe: internal migrations from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

13. The Russo-Siberian migration system

14. The Proletarian mass migrations to the Atlantic economies

15. The Asian contract labor system (1830s to 1920s) and transpacific migration

16. Imperial interest groups and Subaltern cultural assertion

Part IV: Twentieth-century changes

17. Forced labor and refugees in the Northern Hemisphere to the 1950s

18. Between the old and the new, 1920s to 1950s

19. New migration systems since the 1960s

20. Intercultural strategies and closed doors in the 1990s.

Notes:

"First printing in paperback."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [717]-746) and index.

ISBN:

9780822349013

0822349019

OCLC:

694733579