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Over land and sea : migration from antiquity to the present day
- Title
- Over land and sea : migration from antiquity to the present day / Massimo Livi-Bacci ; translated by David Broder.
- Author
- Livi Bacci, Massimo
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : Polity Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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- Additional Authors
- Broder, David
- Description
- ix, 163 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm
- Summary
- In this book, Massimo Livi-Bacci examines migrations past and present with reference to the degree of free choice behind them. The degree can be minimal, as when migration is compelled by war, natural disaster or the actions of a tyrant, but in other cases the decision to migrate can be fully voluntary and deliberate, as when individuals and groups weigh up their options and decide whether to move. Between these two poles there is a continuum of different situations, with gradually increasing or decreasing degrees of freedom and choice. Livi-Bacci explores these variations by focusing on fifteen stories of migration from Antiquity to the present day, ranging from the Greek colonization of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Ancient world to the great migration of millions of people from Europe to the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taken together, these stories of human movement shed fresh light on the millennia-long history of migration and its motivations, causes and consequences.
- Uniform Title
- Per terre e per mari. English
- Alternative Title
- Per terre e per mari.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from Italian.
- Contents
- I. Antiquity -- II. In the hands of the state -- III. Misdeeds of nature -- IV. Organized migration -- V. Free migration.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-1938
- ISBN
- 9781509555307
- 1509555307
- 9781509555291
- 1509555293
- OCLC
- 1345513110
- Author
- Livi Bacci, Massimo, author.
- Title
- Over land and sea : migration from antiquity to the present day / Massimo Livi-Bacci ; translated by David Broder.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : Polity Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- English edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Translated from Italian.
- Added Author
- Broder, David, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-1938