Cultures in Contact - Dirk Hoerder
World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Comparative and International Working-Class History)
KORTE INHOUD
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 t...
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2002Uitgever: Duke University Press779 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0822328348ISBN-13: 9780822328346Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Bound, cloth with original dustjacket (protected with removable cellophane), xxii+779pp., 18x26cm., in good condition (dustjacket with light traces of wear). ISBN 9780822328346.
Durham and London Duke University Press 2002
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 magn...
Durham and London Duke University Press 2002
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 magn...
