McKeown – Globalization & Capitalism

Prof. Adam McKeown from Columbia University did an online conference a couple weeks ago (November 08, 2011. University of Pittsburgh. World History Center.). The title was “Did Empire Matter? Indian Migration in Global Context 1834-1940” as a continuation of the Global Migrations Discussion. I have uploaded a summary of that lecture’s content and here’s the link to the pdf,

PDF: McKeown – Migrations

You can still watch the tape of the online conference in this link: LIVE Conference (taped)

Prof. Adam McKeown, is a leading figure in world-historical interpretation, has shown the value of migration studies in clarifying global patterns. He is author of studies including, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders /(2008), and he is writing a history of globalization since 1760. He co-directs the International and Global History graduate track at Columbia.

Article: Global Migration, 1846 – 1940 by Prof. Adam McKeown (capitalisthistory.wordpress.com)
Where are the world’s biggest Chinese and Indian immigrant communities? (capitalisthistory.wordpress.com)
Why Globalization Matters? (capitalisthistory.wordpress.com)
Paper: Eugene Kulischer, Joseph Schechtman and the Historiography of European Forced Migrations (capitalisthistory.wordpress.com)
Journal Reco: Globalization and Global History in Toynbee (capitalisthistory.wordpress.com)
World: World Migration Report 2011 – Communicating Effectively about Migration (reliefweb.int)
Journal of World History, vol. 22, no. 4 (2011) (uhpjournals.wordpress.com)

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Rudolph Vecoli introduced his edited volume A Century of European Migrations, 1830–1930 with the statement “[w]e need to move beyond the framework of the ‘Atlantic Migration’ . . . It [has] blinkered us to the global nature of [migration].”

And indeed, that is what Prof. Adam McKeown planned to demonstrate in the article “Global Migration, 1846–1940”. The article is a great tool to understand the role that global interconnectedness, industrialization and increase in trade meant for the world. McKeown explains how was it that millions of migrants during the period of his study enabled for the population of America, Southeast Asia and Manchuria to increased more quickly than world population.

Read it:Global Migration 1846-1940. McKeown, Adam, Ph.D. Journal of World History, Volume 15, Number 2, June 2004, pp. 155-189 (Article)

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