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30 - Refugees in Africa, 1490–1820

from Part X - Refugees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

By
Rémi Dewière
Edited by
Cátia Antunes  and
Eric Tagliacozzo
Cátia Antunes
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Eric Tagliacozzo
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400 to 1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of preindustrial 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 for free, forced, and unfree labor, 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.

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AfricaRefugeesLittle Ice AgeEnvironmentMoriscosSlaveryIslamEmpiresUrbanismLandscapes
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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations , pp. 583 - 600
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Bartabee, Richard, Gasse, Françoise, and Stickley, Catherine, eds. Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa. Dordrecht: Springer, 2004.Google Scholar
Brunk, Karsten and Gronenborn, Detlef. “Floods, Droughts, and Migrations: The Effects of Late Holocene Lake Level Oscillations and Climate Fluctuations on the Settlement and Political History in the Chad Basin,” in Living with the Lake: Perspectives on History, Culture and Economy of Lake Chad, ed. Krings, Matthias and Platte, Editha, 101–132. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2004.Google Scholar
Dewière, Rémi. Du lac Tchad à La Mecque. Le sultanat du Borno et son monde (xvie–xviie siècle). Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2017.Google Scholar
Falola, Toyin and Usman, Aribidesi, eds. Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Green, Toby. A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution. London: Penguin Books, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harvey, L. P. Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Herbst, Jeffrey. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Kopytoff, Igor, ed. The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Maley, Jean and Vernet, Robert. “Populations and Climatic Evolution in North Tropical Africa from the End of the Neolithic to the Dawn of the Modern Era.” African Archaeological Review 32, 2 (2015), 179–232.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nicholson, Sharon E. “The Methodology of Historical Climate Reconstruction and Its Application to Africa.” The Journal of African History 20, 1 (1979), 31–49.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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