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TITLE OF PRODUCT:

The Great Migrations. From Moses to Globalization. (Les collections de l’histoire N°46.)

NAME OF AUTHOR(S):

Collective

PLACE AND DATE OG PUBBLICATION:

January 2010

TYPE OF PRODUCT:

Book

LANGUAGE/S OF PRODUCT:

French

DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS:

The review traces the history of migration on a worldwide scale, from antiquity to the present. The summary is as follows:
Chapter 1: The population of the world
Chapter 2: The time of slavery

Chapter 3 is more about contemporary migration. It is entitled: “The time of immigrants “and includes a map of immigration from 1840 to 1940 (on a worldwide scale ), 3 interviews (with Philippe Rygiel: “When Europe was a land of immigration” / with Gerard Noiriel: France, “an old immigration country” / Catherine Wihtol de Wenden: “The new migration scenario”), a chronology (from Ellis Island to Athens Forum) and a bibliography

COMMENTS ON THIS DOCUMENT:

The third chapter emphasizes clearly, at different scales and through various documents (maps, photographs, statistics, migratory phenomena of the last two centuries.


WEBSITE OF THE PRODUCT:

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NAME OF COMPILER:

Frédéric Rousselle / Marika Kovacs

NAME OF INSTITUTION:

CNFETP

ROLE:

Teachers



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