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List of Maps and Figures; Acknowledgernents and Dedication; Contexts: AnIntroductory Note to Readers; Worlds in Motion, Cultures in Contact; PART 1The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Mediterranean and Eurasian Worlds to the 1500s;Antecedents: Migration and Population Changes in the Mediterranean-AsianWorlds; Continuities: Mobility and Migration from the Eleventh to theSixteenth Century; The End of Intercivilizational Contact and the Economicsof Religious Expulsions; Ottoman Society, Europe, and the Beginnings ofColonial Contact; PART 11 Other Worlds and European Colonialism to theEighteenth Century; Africa and the Slave Migration Systems; Trade Posts andColonies in the World of the Indian Ocean; Latin America: Population Collapseand Resettlement; Fur Empires and Colonies of Agricultural Settlement; ForcedLabor Migration in and to the Americas; Migration and Conversion: Worldviews,Material Culture, Racial Hierarchies; PART III Intercontinental MigrationSystems to the Nineteenth Century; Europe: Internal Migrations from' theSeventeenth to the Nineteenth Century; The Russo-Siberian Migration System;The Proletarian Mass Migrations in the Atlantic Economics; The Asian ContractLabor Systern (1830s to 1920s) and Transpacific Migration; Imperial InterestGroups and Subaltern Cultural Assertion; PART IV Twentieth-Century Changes;Forced Labor and Refugees in the Northern Hemisphere to the 1950s; Betweenthe Old and the New, 1920s to 1950s; New Migration Systems since the 1960s;Intercultural Strategies and Closed Doors in the 1990s