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Summary
How the migration of people through the ages has shaped the course of history.
The Atlas of Human Migration explains how humans have constantly overcome environmental and physical barriers and adapted to new social, political and environmental realities. From an estimated original 10,000 to 20,000 individuals, the world population has expanded to more than six billion. This book describes how it has spread over the world.
The compelling stories of the world's peoples and their migrations through time are enhanced by informative annotated maps and informative timelines. Photographs, paintings and artifacts bring to life the history of human migration. In easy-to-understand language, a team of academic experts examines mass migrations -the motivations behind them, and their impact on the world.
The book includes:
An introduction to the main causes of human migrations The economic and social effects of migrations, traditional routes, and expected future migrations The prehistoric migrations of early humans Indo-European expansion, the Exodus, Polynesian and Greek colonization, and the Romans Medieval civilizations on the move -- Barbarians, Vikings, Mongols, Arabs and the Bantu Expansion through colonization, and the impact of convict ships and the slave trade Industrialization and the emergence of modern empires Famine, war, persecution and economic collapse in the turbulent 1800s The emergence of the state of Israel, the Eastern Bloc collapse, the India and Pakistan partition, the decolonization of Vietnam and Algeria, and Africa's civil wars.The Atlas of Human Migration is the definitive record of our planet's people and a volume that will be recognized immediately as an essential popular reference.
Author Notes
Russell King is head of the Geography Department at Sussex University in England. He has edited and contributed to numerous works, including Mass Migration in Europe, Writing Across Worlds: Literature and Migration and Exploding the Migration Myths .
Reviews (3)
Booklist Review
This lavishly illustrated guide to the history of migration has no stated audience but would be appropriate for high-school and undergraduate as well as most public libraries. Arranged chronologically, each section is subdivided into chapters that focus on different migrations of that era. For example, the section entitled The Ancient World includes chapters on the Jews of the Old Testament period, the Polynesians, the Greeks, and the Romans. Each chapter has a map illustrating the subject and a time line. Most chapters are only four to six pages long. Since these pages include maps and photos, there is no space for in-depth examinations of each topic. However, the authors' summaries of the research and explanations of what is known about the events influencing the movement of each group of people are well written and interesting. The photos and their captions enhance the text and serve to draw in a browser. The majority of the maps are accurate but simplified, with only the outlines of the land masses, bodies of water, and rivers indicated. Emphasis is on the lines and arrows that indicate migrations and the shadings in different colors that show ranges of settlement or conquest. The legends are fairly simple, and the symbols on the map are clear. Each map is self-explanatory to some extent, but reading the text is necessary to fully understand many of them. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of human migration.--Lindstrom, Elaine Copyright 2008 Booklist
Choice Review
This work offers a historical and current look at human migration in East Africa and points beyond. Maps, photographs, charts, and other illustrations in color depict how migrants moved between continents, countries, and cities. Beginning with "The Dawn of Humankind," the atlas has several sections: "The Ancient World," "The Medieval World," "The Expanding World" (discovery of the Americas), "The Industrial World" (rise of industrialism and colonialism), "The New World" (including the mass migration of Europeans to the US), and "The Modern World," marked by the migration of European Jews to Israel and the rise of labor camps in the former USSR. Segal's An Atlas of International Migration (CH, Feb'94, 31-3043), probably the first comprehensive work of this kind, is somewhat similar in length and content to the work under review. Each traces the history of human migration from East Africa, is international in scope, and discusses migration flows and patterns and more. The older atlas, however, is not in color or as current; it includes outlines, more material on voluntary and involuntary migration and on diasporas, and an extensive bibliography. The atlases complement each other. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers. J. C. Phillips University of Toledo
Library Journal Review
Trim but fact-filled, this seven-chapter subject monograph presents the migratory history of humankind from early hominids onward. King (Writing Across Worlds) considers the factors that stimulate mass relocation and examines the social, economic, and cultural impact of these movements. Pertinent, subject-relevant quotes; rare period photographs; and highly detailed, full-color migratory maps make this an edifying read. In addition to a series of time lines that ribbon across each chapter's introductory pages, the book concludes with a two-page, by-year chronology of significant historical diasporas, both forced and freely chosen. Highly recommended for cultural studies and public library collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
Introduction |
The Dawn of Humankind |
The Nomadic Ape |
Homo sapiens on the March |
The Ancient World |
The Common Tongue |
Let My People Go |
The People of Many Islands |
The Greek Phenomenon |
Rome and Its Empire |
The Medieval World |
Descent of the Barbarians |
The Word of the Prophet |
The Men of the North |
Conquerors of the World |
The Expanding World |
In Search of El Dorado |
The Middle Passage |
A New England |
Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars |
The Industrial World |
Farm and Factory |
Empire Builders |
Searching for Freedom Lands |
Our Manifest Destiny |
The New World |
Huddled Masses Yearning to Be Free |
Farewell, Dear Erin, Fare Thee Well... |
No Tsar in America |
All the Little Italys |
Sojourners on the Golden Mountain |
The Modern World |
The Gulag Nation |
A Land of Milk and Honey |
Incompatible Gods |
World in Flux |
Chronology |
Index and Acknowledgements |