Hoerder / Gordon / Keyssar Cultures in Contact

World Migrations in the Second Millennium
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8407-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 808 Seiten

Reihe: Comparative and international working-class history

Analysis of migrations--regional, interregional, continent-wide, and global--and the resulting cultural interactions and societal changes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoerder, Dirk

Gordon, Andrew

Keyssar, Alexander

James, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Figures xiii

Acknowledgments and Dedication xvii

Contexts: An Introductory Note to Readers xix

1. Worlds in Motion, Cultures in Contact 1

Part I The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Mediterranean and Eurasian Worlds to the 1500s 23

2. Antecedents: Migration and Population Changes in the Mediterranean-Asian Worlds 27

3. Continuities: Mobility and Migration from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century 59

4. The End of Intercivilization Contact and the Economics of Religious Expulsions 92

5. Ottoman Society, Europe, and the Beginnings of Colonial Contact 108

Part II Other Worlds and European Colonialism to the Eighteenth Century 135

6. Africa and the Slave Migration Systems 139

7. Trade-Posts and Colonies in the World of the Indian Ocean 163

8. Latin America: Population Collapse and Resettlement 187

9. Fur Empires and Colonies of Agricultural Settlement 211

10. Forced Labor Migration in and to the Americas 234

11. Migration and Conversion: Worldviews, Material Culture, Racial Hierarchies 257

Part III Intercontinental Migration Systems to the Nineteenth Century 275

12. Europe: Internal Migrations from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century 277

13. The Russo-Siberian Migration System 306

14. The Proletarian Mass Migrations in the Atlantic Economies 331

15. The Asian Contract Labor System (1830s to 1920s) and Transpacific Migration 366

16. Imperial Interest Groups and Subaltern Cultural Assertion 405

Part IV Twentieth-Century Changes 443

17. Forced Labor and Refugees in the Northern Hemisphere to the 1950s 445

18. Between the Old and the New, 1920s to 1950s 489

19. New Migration Systems since the 1960s 508

20. Intercultural Strategies and Closed Doors in the 1990s 564

Notes 583

Selected Bibliography 717

Sources for Maps and Figures 747

Index 755

Über Autor(innen)

Dirk Hoerder is Professor of History at the Universität Bremen in Germany. He has written and edited numerous books. He is coeditor of European Migrants: Global and Local Perspectives; The Settling of North America: The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the Present; People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820–1930; Roots of the Transplanted; and Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840–1930.