Migration history in world history : multidisciplinary approaches
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Migration history in world history : multidisciplinary approaches
(Studies in global social history / series editor, Marcel van der Linden, v. 3)
Brill, 2010
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-276) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Migration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the cultural, economic, political and social developments and innovations. So far, however, most studies are limited to the last four centuries, largely ignoring the spectacular advances made in other disciplines which study the 'deep past', like anthropology, archaeology, population genetics and linguistics, and that reach back as far as 80.000 years ago. This is the first book that offers an overview of the state of the art in these disciplines and shows how historians and social scientists working in the recent past can profit from their insights.
Table of Contents
Foreword
PART I. HISTORICAL APPROACHES
1. Migration History: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen & Patrick Manning
PART II. BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES
2. Population Genetics and the Migration of Modern Humans (Homo sapiens), Peter de Knijff
3. A Brief Introduction to Geochemical Methods used in Assessing Migration in Biological Anthropology, Shomarka Keita
PART III. LINGUISTIC APPROACHES
4. Prehistoric Migration and Colonization Processes in Oceania: A View from Historical Linguistics and Archaeology, Andrew Pawley
5. Linguistic Testimony and Migration Histories, Christopher Ehret
6. The Archaeo-Linguistics of Migration, Patrick McConvell
PART IV. ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES
7. Ancient Immigrants: Archaeology and Maritime Migrations, Jon M. Erlandson
8. The Family Factor in Migration Decisions, Jan Kok
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