Migration: A World History
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| Anteprima |
Migration
began with our origin as the human species and continues today. Each
chapter of world history features distinct types of migration. The
earliest migrations spread humans across the globe. Over the centuries,
as our cultures, societies, and technologies evolved in different
material environments, migrants conflicted, merged, and cohabited with
each other, creating, entering, and leaving various city-states,
kingdoms, empires, and nations. During the early modern period,
migrations reconnected the continents, including through colonization
and forced migrations of subject peoples, while political concepts like
"citizen" and "alien" developed. In recent history, migrations changed
their character as nation-states and transnational unions sought in new
ways to control the peoples who migrated across their borders. This
volume will explore the process of migration chronologically and also at
several levels, from the illuminating example of the migration of a
individual community, to larger patterns of the collective movements of
major ethnic groups, to the more abstract study of the processes of
emigration, migration, and immigration. This book will concentrate on
substantial migrations covering long distances and involving large
numbers of people. It will intentionally balance evidence from the now
diverse people's of the world, for example, by highlighting an exemplary
migration for each of the six chapters that highlights different
trajectories and by keeping issues of gender and socio-economic class
salient wherever appropriate. Further, as a major theme, the volume will
consider how technology, the environment, and various polities have
historically shaped human migration. Exciting new scholarship in the
several fields inherent in this topic make it a particularly valuable
and timely project. Each chapter will contain short individual examples,
maps, illustrations, and brief quotations from diverse types of primary
documents, all integrated with each other and analyzed engagingly in
the text.
