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Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s: 8
Author(s): Donna R. Gabaccía (Editor), Dirk Hoerder (Editor), Adam McKeown (Contributor), Ulrike Freitag (Contributor), Claude Markovits (Contributor), Michael Mann (Contributor), Amarjit Kaur (Contributor), Gungwu Wang (Contributor), Takeshi Hamashita (Contributor), Carl Trocki (Contributor), Elizabeth Sinn (Contributor), Silke Hensel (Contributor), Lara Putnam (Contributor), Mary Blewett (Contributor), Yrjö Kaukiainen (Contributor), Henry Yu (Contributor), Christine Skwiot (Contributor), Pamila Gupta (Contributor)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 11 April 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 568 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004193162
- ISBN-13: 9789004193161
Book Description
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Indian to the Atlantic Oceans. Detailed case studies demonstrate the importance of human migration in the development, consolidation and critique of empire-building, theories of race, modern capitalism, and large-scale commercial agriculture and industry on every continent.
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About the Author
Donna R. Gabaccia is the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of many books and articles on U.S. immigration and Italian migration around the world.
Dirk Hoerder teaches global migration history at Arizona State University. His newest research is on North American migrations since the mid-19th-century. On leave from the University of Bremen, he has also taught in Canada and Paris.
