Connecting seas and connected ocean rims : Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans and China seas migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s / / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Dirk Hoerder.

• Superior document: Studies in global social history, v. 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949-; Hoerder, Dirk.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in global social history ; v. 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (564 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283120518; 9786613120519; 9004203346
• ISSN: 1874-6705
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Dirk Hoerder.

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.