Cultures in Contact

Informationen zum Autor 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, 18201930; Roots of the Transplanted; and Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 18401930. Klappentext 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, 18201930; Roots of the Transplanted; and Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 18401930. Zusammenfassung A broad! pioneering interpretation of the scope! patterns! and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries 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...

Zusammenfassung
A broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries

Inhalt

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