In this Book
- Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium
- 2010
- Book
- Published by: Duke University Press
Signaling a major paradigm shift, Cultures in Contact creates an English-language map of human movement that is not Atlantic Ocean-based. Hoerder describes the origins, causes, and extent of migrations around the globe and analyzes the cultural interactions they have triggered. He pays particular attention to the consequences of immigration within the receiving countries. His work sweeps from the eleventh century forward through the end of the twentieth, when migration patterns shifted to include transpacific migration, return migrations from former colonies, refugee migrations, and distinct regional labor migrations in the developing world. Hoerder demonstrates that as we enter the third millennium, regional and intercontinental migration patterns no longer resemble those of previous centuries. They have been transformed by new communications systems and other forces of globalization and transnationalism.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- List of Maps and Figures
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Acknowledgments and Dedication
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Contexts: An Introductory Note to Readers
- pp. xix-xxii
- 6. Africa and the Slave Migration Systems
- pp. 139-162
- 13. The Russo-Siberian Migration System
- pp. 306-330
- Part IV: Twentieth-Century Changes
- pp. 443-444
- 19. New Migration Systems since the 1960s
- pp. 508-563
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 717-746
- Sources for Maps and Figures
- pp. 747-754
- About the Author
- p. 780