Over Land and Sea

Migration from Antiquity to the Present Day

Massimo Livi-Bacci (University of Florence), David Broder

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English

Polity Press
07 July 2023

Geography

Human history has always been marked by the mobility of people and populations, from the earliest movement of human beings out of Africa to the flows of migrants and refugees today. While mobility is intrinsic to human nature, migration is not always voluntary: it can be the result of free choice, but it can also be forced, in different ways and to varying degrees.

In this book, Massimo Livi-Bacci examines migrations past and present with reference to the degree of free choice behind them. The degree can be minimal, as when migration is compelled by war, natural disaster or the actions of a tyrant, but in other cases the decision to migrate can be fully voluntary and deliberate, as when individuals and groups weigh up their options and decide whether to move. Between these two poles there is a continuum of different situations, with gradually increasing or decreasing degrees of freedom and choice. Livi-Bacci explores these variations by focusing on fifteen stories of migration from Antiquity to the present day, ranging from the Greek colonization of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Ancient world to the great migration of millions of people from Europe to the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taken together, these stories of human movement shed fresh light on the millennia-long history of migration and its motivations, causes and consequences.

By: Massimo Livi-Bacci (University of Florence)
Translated by: David Broder
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781509555307
ISBN 10: 1509555307
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 07 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Massimo Livi-Bacci is Emeritus Professor of Demography at the University of Florence.

Reviews for Over Land and Sea: Migration from Antiquity to the Present Day

‘A wide-ranging, erudite and original meditation on the extraordinary and ordinary act of human migration. Livi-Bacci uses analytic rigour and personal stories to counter the “migration crisis” myths of our current age.’ Peter Leese, author of Migrant Representations: Life Story, Investigation, Picture