A landmark work on human migration around the globe cultures in contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people it is a broad pioneering interpretation of the scope patterns and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. Cultures in contact world migrations in the second millennium by dirk hoerder durham and london duke university press 2002 xxii plus 779 pp 100 encyclopedic seems to be the word for hoerders cultures in contact two of the three blurbs on the back of the dust jacket use this adjective. A landmark work on human migration around the globe cultures in contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people it is a broad pioneering interpretation of the scope patterns and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. Get this from a library cultures in contact world migrations in the second millennium dirk hoerder analysis of migrations regional interregional continent wide and global and the resulting cultural interactions and societal changes. First hoerder connects migration movements with world events and world events with migration movements in fact much of the time i felt i was reading a world history of the second millennium second hoerder discusses moves made by individuals within countries and regions as well as among them