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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