Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume I
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Contributors
- Preface
- Book part
- 1Introduction and overview
- Part IHistoriography, method, and themes
- 2Writing world history
- 3The evolution of world histories
- 4Evolution, rupture, and periodization
- 5From divergence to convergence: centrifugal and centripetal forces in history
- 6Belief, knowledge, and language
- 7Historiography of technology and innovation
- 8Fire and fuel in human history
- 9Family history and world history: from domestication to biopolitics
- 10Gendered world history
- 11What does anthropology contribute to world history?
- 12Migration in human history
- Part IIThe Paleolithic and the beginnings of human history
- Index
- References
12 - Migration in human history
from Part I - Historiography, method, and themes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume I
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Contributors
- Preface
- Book part
- 1Introduction and overview
- Part IHistoriography, method, and themes
- 2Writing world history
- 3The evolution of world histories
- 4Evolution, rupture, and periodization
- 5From divergence to convergence: centrifugal and centripetal forces in history
- 6Belief, knowledge, and language
- 7Historiography of technology and innovation
- 8Fire and fuel in human history
- 9Family history and world history: from domestication to biopolitics
- 10Gendered world history
- 11What does anthropology contribute to world history?
- 12Migration in human history
- Part IIThe Paleolithic and the beginnings of human history
- Index
- References
Summary
The field of demography provides the basic tools for analyzing the data on birth, death, and migration to give a fuller picture of changes in human population. The basic patterns of human migration have doubtless changed somewhat over the years, but the underlying logic of human migration is remarkably consistent. The early days of human history brought two big changes in migratory patterns that have been with us ever since. In very early human migrations, the principal movements were to territories ecologically similar to the grasslands and waterways of eastern Africa. It is appropriate to affirm a more general appreciation of human technological and social innovation over a somewhat longer era: the Glacial Maximum and the Holocene combined to bring the era of production. Within just over the past millennium, four patterns of migration developed further importance: pastoral, maritime, forced migration, and urbanization. The emergence of capitalism became evident wherever commerce was intensive.
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