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, while political concepts like "citizen" and "alien"
developed. In recent history, migrations changed their character as
nation-states and transnational unions sought in new ways to
control the peoples who migrated across their borders. This volume
will explore the process of migration chronologically and also at
several levels, from the illuminating example of the migration of a
individual community, to larger patterns of the collective
movements of major ethnic groups, to the more abstract study of the
processes of emigration, migration, and immigration. This book will
concentrate on substantial migrations covering long distances and
involving large numbers of people. It will intentionally balance
evidence from the now diverse people's of the world, for example,
by highlighting an exemplary migration for each of the six chapters
that highlights different trajectories and by keeping issues of
gender and socio-economic class salient wherever appropriate.
Further, as a major theme, the volume will consider how technology,
the environment, and various polities have historically shaped
human migration. Exciting new scholarship in the several fields
inherent in this topic make it a particularly valuable and timely
project. Each chapter will contain short individual examples, maps,
illustrations, and brief quotations from diverse types of primary
documents, all integrated with each other and analyzed engagingly
in the text.
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