Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / D. R. Gabaccía and D. Hoerder -- Editors’ Introduction / Donna R. Gabaccia and Dirk Hoerder -- Crossing The Waters: Historic Developments And Periodizations Before The 1830s / Dirk Hoerder -- A World Made Many: Integration And Segregation In Global Migration, 1840–1940 / Adam McKeown -- Introduction: Inter-Oceanic Migrations From An Indian Ocean Perspective, 1830s To 1930s / Ulrike Freitag -- Indian Merchant Networks Outside India In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey / Claude Markovits -- Migration — Re-Migration — Circulation: South Asian Kulis In The Indian Ocean And Beyond, 1840–1940 / Michael Mann -- Indian Ocean Crossings: Indian Labor Migration And Settlement In Southeast Asia, 1870 To 1940 / Amarjit Kaur -- Introduction: Link-Points In A Half-Ocean / Wang Gungwu -- From Tribute Trade To Migration Center: The Ryukyu And Hong Kong Maritime Networks Within The East And South China Seas In A Long-Term Perspective / Takeshi Hamashita -- Singapore As A Nineteenth Century Migration Node / Carl A. Trocki -- Hong Kong As An In-Between Place In The Chinese Diaspora, 1849–1939 / Elizabeth Sinn -- Introduction: The Atlantic, Its Migrations, And Their Scholars / Donna R. Gabaccia -- From One Black Atlantic To Many: Slave Regimes, Creole Societies, And Power Relationships In The Atlantic World / Dirk Hoerder -- Latin American Perspectives On Migration In The Atlantic World / Silke Hensel -- Undone By Desire: Migration, Sex Across Boundaries, And Collective Destinies In The Greater Caribbean, 1840–1940 / Lara Putnam -- The Dynamics Of Labor Migration And Raw Materials Acquisition In The Transatlantic Worsted Trade, 1830–1930 / Mary H. Blewett -- Overseas Migration And The Development Of Ocean Navigation: A Europe-Outward Perspective / Yrjö Kaukiainen -- Introduction: The Rhythms Of The Transpacific / Henry Yu -- The Intermittent Rhythms Of The Cantonese Pacific / Henry Yu -- Remapping A Pre-World War Two Japanese Diaspora: Transpacific Migration As An Articulation Of Japan’s Colonial Expansionism / Eiichiro Azuma -- Migration And The Politics Of Sovereignty, Settlement, And Belonging In Hawai‘i / Christine Skwiot -- Disquietude And The Writing Of Ethnographic Histories: Portuguese Decolonization And Goan Migration In The Indian Ocean, 1920 To The Present / Pamila Gupta -- Afterword: Migration And Globalization: Bridging Three Eras In Modern World History / Donna R. Gabaccia -- Bibliography / D. R. Gabaccía and D. Hoerder -- Contributors / D. R. Gabaccía and D. Hoerder -- Index Of Places / D. R. Gabaccía and D. Hoerder.

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Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Indian to the Atlantic Oceans. Detailed case studies demonstrate the importance of human migration in the development, consolidation and critique of empire-building, theories of race, modern capitalism, and large-scale commercial agriculture and industry on every continent.