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

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

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

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.

A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. In this magnum opus thirty years in the making, Dirk Hoerder reconceptualizes the history of migration and immigration, establishing that societal transformation cannot be understood without taking into account the impact of migrations and, indeed, that mobility is more characteristic of human behavior than is stasis. 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. Cultures in Contact will become the definitive work in migration history and a major contribution to world history .