Overview

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 through the end of the twentieth, when migration patterns shifted to include transpacific migration, return migrations from former colonies, refugee migrations, and distinct regional labor migrations in the developing world. Hoerder demonstrates that as we enter the third millennium, regional and intercontinental migration patterns no longer resemble those of previous centuries. They have been transformed by new communications systems and other forces of globalization and transnationalism.

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"Winner of the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for the best book in social science history ""An encyclopedic overview of who has moved where and why for the last thousand years."" Immanuel Wallerstein, author of World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction ""[Cultures in Contact] is of particular importance because Hoerder shows in great detail that it is necessary to move from a focus on the Atlantic migration system in order to give due weight to migration flows in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific world."" Jeremy Black The National Interest ""This extraordinary book, written on Braudelian scale, is the most complex and comprehensive history of human migration yet."" Walter Nugent Pacific Historical Review ""A massive and definitive study on migration in the second millennium.""oP. G. Wallace Choice ""Cultures in Contact is a landmark work, a broad and pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations around the globe over the past ten centuries... Hoerder's work links world historical events to global and regional migration flows ... without losing sight of the individual men and women who moved, changed, suffered, prospered, and intermingled with their fellow human beings."" Annemarie Steidl European History Quarterly ""A truly significant book which derives its authority from cross-cultural primary research, as well as secondary reading, on a scale that few previous authors have attempted."" Nicholas Canny History Today ""Dirk Hoerder has achieved the enormous feat of moving a field forward by globalizing the study of human movements."" Leslie Page Moch Journal of Social History ""This book is a milestone in the history of migration."" Leo Lucassen International Review of Social History ""This is a one-of-a-kind book... [It] holds profound implications for our thinking about modernity and capitalism, culture and nationhood."" Jan Nederveen Pieterse Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies"

”This book is breathtaking in its scope and detail. Hoerder has done world history a great service, speaking to multiculturalism while providing the nuts and bolts of migration history over time and space.”—Nancy Green, author of Ready-To-Wear and Ready-To-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York

Winner of the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for the best book in social science history An encyclopedic overview of who has moved where and why for the last thousand years. Immanuel Wallerstein, author of World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction [Cultures in Contact] is of particular importance because Hoerder shows in great detail that it is necessary to move from a focus on the Atlantic migration system in order to give due weight to migration flows in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific world. Jeremy Black The National Interest This extraordinary book, written on Braudelian scale, is the most complex and comprehensive history of human migration yet. Walter Nugent Pacific Historical Review A massive and definitive study on migration in the second millennium. oP. G. Wallace Choice Cultures in Contact is a landmark work, a broad and pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations around the globe over the past ten centuries... Hoerder's work links world historical events to global and regional migration flows ... without losing sight of the individual men and women who moved, changed, suffered, prospered, and intermingled with their fellow human beings. Annemarie Steidl European History Quarterly A truly significant book which derives its authority from cross-cultural primary research, as well as secondary reading, on a scale that few previous authors have attempted. Nicholas Canny History Today Dirk Hoerder has achieved the enormous feat of moving a field forward by globalizing the study of human movements. Leslie Page Moch Journal of Social History This book is a milestone in the history of migration. Leo Lucassen International Review of Social History This is a one-of-a-kind book... [It] holds profound implications for our thinking about modernity and capitalism, culture and nationhood. Jan Nederveen Pieterse Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies

Author Information

Dirk Hoerder is Professor of History at the UniversitÄt Bremen in Germany. He has written and edited numerous books. He is coeditor of European Migrants: Global and Local Perspectives; The Settling of North America: The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the Present; People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820–1930; Roots of the Transplanted; and Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840–1930.

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