Quantification of changes in migration, including international migration, domestic urbanization,
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"Migration in World History is the most revolutionary and innovative study of migration that has ever been written. It not only shows how systemic migration is for human societies, but also allows the reader to understand its different expressions (invaders, colonizers, sojourners and itinerants) and their impact on social change through time. Furthermore, it can be read as an alternative and truly global history through the lens of mobility and human interactions."
Leo Lucassen, Director of the International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands
"Patrick Manning’s Migration in World History displays a broad knowledge of world history that deemphasizes political and imperial interpretations of historical change. Drawing on genetics, anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology — in addition to a lifetime of historical research — Manning argues that the human 'pattern of accelerating innovation through discussion and migration' began not with the Industrial Revolution, nor even the advent of agriculture, but on a more epochal scale with the earliest human travels."
Thomas M. Truxes, New York University, USA
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition
A Note on the Expression of Time
1. Introduction: modeling patterns of human migration
2. Earliest human migrations, to 40,000 BP
3. Peopling northern and American regions, 40,000 to 15,000 BP
4. Agriculture, 15,000 BP to 5000 BP
5. Commerce, 3000 BCE to 500 CE
6. Modes of movement, 500 CE to 1400 CE
7. Spanning the Oceans, 1400 to 1700
8. Labor for industry and empire, 1700 to 1900
9. Diasporas and nations in expansion, 1900 to 1980
10. Migration in global transformation, 1980 to 2050
Appendix: Migration theory and debates
References to Appendix
Index
