Full Description
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Indian to the Atlantic Oceans. Detailed case studies demonstrate the importance of human migration in the development, consolidation and critique of empire-building, theories of race, modern capitalism, and large-scale commercial agriculture and industry on every continent.
Contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Figures
Editors' Introduction, Donna R. Gabaccia and Dirk Hoerder
Crossing the Waters: Historic Developments and Periodizations before the 1830s, Dirk Hoerder
A World Made Many: Integration and Segregation in Global Migration, 1840-1940, Adam McKeown
Part One: The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
Introduction: Inter-Oceanic Migrations from an Indian Ocean Perspective, 1830s to 1930s, Ulrike Freitag
Indian Merchant Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey, Claude Markovits
Migration—Re-migration—Circulation: South Asian Kulis in the Indian Ocean and Beyond, 1840-1940, Michael Mann
Indian Ocean Crossings: Indian Labor Migration and Settlement in Southeast Asia, 1870 to 1940 ,Amarjit Kaur
Part Two: The Worlds of the East and Southeast Asian Seas
Introduction: Link-Points in a Half-Ocean, Wang Gungwu
From Tribute Trade to Migration Center: The Ryukyu and Hong Kong Maritime Networks within the East and South China Seas in a Long-Term Perspective, Takeshi Hamashita
Singapore as a Nineteenth Century Migration Node, Carl A. Trocki
Hong Kong as an In-between Place in the Chinese Diaspora, 1849-1939, Elizabeth Sinn
Part Three: The Worlds of the Atlantic Ocean
Introduction: The Atlantic, Its Migrations, and Their Scholars, Donna R. Gabaccia
From One Black Atlantic to Many: Slave Regimes, Creole Societies, and Power Relationships in the Atlantic World, Dirk Hoerder
Latin American Perspectives on Migration in the Atlantic World, Silke Hensel
Undone by Desire: Migration, Sex across Boundaries, and Collective Destinies in the Greater Caribbean, 1840-1940, Lara Putnam
The Dynamics of Labor Migration and Raw Materials Acquisition in the Transatlantic Worsted Trade, 1830-1930,
Overseas Migration and the Development of Ocean Navigation: A Europe-Outward Perspective, Yrjö Kaukiainen
Part Four: The Pacific Ocean
Introduction: The Rhythms of the Transpacific, Henry Yu
The Intermittent Rhythms of the Cantonese Pacific, Henry Yu
Remapping a Pre-World War Two Japanese Diaspora: Transpacific Migration as an Articulation of Japan's Colonial Expansionism, Eiichiro Azuma
Migration and the Politics of Sovereignty, Settlement, and Belonging in Hawai'I, Christine Skwiot
Part Five: The World Beyond the 1930s
Disquietude and the Writing of Ethnographic Histories: Portuguese Decolonization and Goan Migration in the Indian Ocean, 1920 to the Present, Pamila Gupta
Afterword: Migration and Globalization: Bridging Three Eras in Modern World History, Donna R. Gabaccia
Notes on Authors
Bibliography
Index
