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Book SynopsisTher provides needed perspective on today's "refugee crisis," demonstrating how Europe has taken in far greater numbers of refugees in earlier periods of its history, in wartime as well as peacetime. His sweeping narrative crosses the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, taking readers from the Middle East to the shores of America.
Trade Review"A wide-ranging and detailed history . . . . This stimulating volume is perhaps the most complete history of population movements in Europe’s modern era and will find a place on the shelves of everyone who would understand the world in which we live now."
---Derek Hawes, Journal of Contemporary European Studies"Ther is careful to bring the people involved and the societies that receive them into the equation. The numbers are eye-watering and the time period involved staggering. . . . Essential reading." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *
"An eye-opening and comprehensive account of population movements over the last 500 years." * Paradigm Explorer *
