Deutschland ist über Jahrhunderte hinweg eine Kulturregion mit vielfältigen Wanderungsbewegungen gewesen. Männer und Frauen deutscher Dialekte und zahlreicher regionaler Kulturen sind aus ihrer jeweiligen Heimat ausgewandert, um neue Lebensperspektiven zu finden, Menschen anderer Kulturen - Juden, Hugenotten, Türken u.v.a.m. - sind umgekehrt in Deutschland eingewandert. Dirk Hoerder bietet einen chronologischen Überblick über die Auswanderung, zeigt die unterschiedlichen Motive, die Auswahl der Ziele, die quantitativen Ausmaße und die kulturellen wie wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen.
Deutschland ist über Jahrhunderte hinweg eine Kulturregion mit vielfältigen Wanderungsbewegungen gewesen. Männer und Frauen deutscher Dialekte und ...
Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States over the past two centuries. Several essays discuss recent migrations from Central America as well. In the introduction, Dirk Hoerder provides a sweeping historical overview of North American societies in the Atlantic world. He also develops and advocates what he and Nora Faires call transcultural societal studies, an interdisciplinary approach to migration studies...
Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of p...
Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States over the past two centuries. Several essays discuss recent migrations from Central America as well. In the introduction, Dirk Hoerder provides a sweeping historical overview of North American societies in the Atlantic world. He also develops and advocates what he and Nora Faires call transcultural societal studies, an interdisciplinary approach to migration studies...
Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of p...
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, new railroads, ports, and steamships enabled people to travel faster and in greater numbers than ever before. Migrations and Belongings traces burgeoning population movements across several continents from 1870 to the end of World War II. This study explains the complex variables involved in global migrations and the processes of acculturation by which "belonging" takes shape.
Dirk Hoerder emphasizes the migration systems that emerge when population clusters move between regions over long periods of time. Eschewing a Eurocentric...
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, new railroads, ports, and steamships enabled people to travel faster and in greater numbers than ever bef...