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Article: Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Dirk Hoerder. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 779 pp., 71 maps. $100 hc.
This encyclopaedic work is surely the definitive history of migration. Dirk Hoerder's Cultures in Contact maps the five great periods of migration and cultural change in the second millennium:
a. The multi-civilizational Mediterranean and Black Sea World of Latin and Byzantine Christendom, Shiite and Sunni Islam, and of Jewish communities of western Asia, southern Europe, and northern Africa,
b. The mid-fifteenth century migrations, which took merchants and soldiers from the Western Mediterranean to Africa ...