Connecting Atlantic, Indian Ocean, China Seas, and Pacific Migrations, 1830s to 1930s

Only recently have historians begun to study the world's oceans and their role in connecting formerly isolated societies. For a long time oceans have rather been regarded as empty spaces between continents and barriers to communication. The approach to migration has also undergone several changes in recent decades. Discussions have moved away from the traditional historical emphasis that isolates continents and nation states toward broader concepts of social space. The conference "Connecting Atlantic, Indian Ocean, China Seas, and Pacific Migrations, 1830s to 1930s" that took place December 6 -8, 2007, at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, organized in cooperation with the Immigration History Research Center of the University of Minnesota, Arizona State University, and the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, aimed at bringing together the new interest in maritime history and the history of migration in order to examine oceanic "worlds" as systems or networks of migration

Archaeology · China · Geography · Indian ocean · Pacific ocean · Asian Studies and History · Geology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Oceanography