Introduction to Volume 1

Cambridge University Press eBooks, pp. 18–30

Abstract

Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400 to 1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of preindustrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand for free, forced, and unfree labor, long- and short-distance trade, rural/urban displacement, religious mobility, and the rise of the number of refugees worldwide. With thirty chapters from leading experts in the field, this authoritative volume is an essential and detailed study of how migration shaped the nature of global human interactions before the age of modern globalization.

Authors 2

1. Cátia A.P. Antunes Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Universiteit Leiden

2. Eric Tagliacozzo

   Cornell University

   Affiliation as printed

   Cornell University, New York