The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Volume 1, Migrations, 1400–1800

Examines human movement from 1400–1800 and reveals how it shaped global interactions before the age of modern globalization.

Volume I reveals how human movement from 1400–1800 shaped the nature of human interactions before the age of modern globalization. An important contribution to the study of pre-industrial global migrations, this volume will interest specialists of migration and world history in the early modern world.Volume I documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400–1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of pre-industrial 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 of free, forced and unfree labour, 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.