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Author Fisher, Michael Herbert, 1950-

Title Migration : a world history / Michael H. Fisher
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013

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Contents Cover; Contents; Editors' Preface; Preface: Migration in World History and as World History; CHAPTER 1 Earliest Human Migrations, ca. 200,000 BCE to ca. 600 CE; CHAPTER 2 Mixing and Clashing Migrations, 600 to 1450 CE; CHAPTER 3 Migrations Start to Reconnect the World, 1450 to 1750; CHAPTER 4 National and International Migrations, 1750 to 1914; CHAPTER 5 Migrations in an Age of Globalization, 1914 to the Present; Chronology; Notes; Further Reading; Websites; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Summary Migration began with our origin as the human species and continues today. Each chapter of world history features distinct types of migration. The earliest migrations spread humans across the globe. Over the centuries, as our cultures, societies, and technologies evolved in different material environments, migrants conflicted, merged, and cohabited with each other, creating, entering, and leaving various city-states, kingdoms, empires, and nations. During the early modern period, migrations reconnected the continents, including through colonization and forced migrations of subject peoples, whil
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Emigration and immigration -- History
Migration, Internal -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration
Migration, Internal
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199351947
0199351945
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9781299966727