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Migrants
The Story of Us All
Vorbestellbar | Lieferzeit: Vorbestellbar - Erscheint laut Verlag im/am 13.08.2024. I
Erstverkaufstag: 13.08.2024
Artikel-Nr:
9780349144443
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.08.2024
Seiten:
400
Autor:
Sam Miller
Format:
198x126x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Sam Miller was born and brought up in London, but has spent much of his adult life in India. He is a former BBC journalist and is the author of Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity (2009), Blue Guide: India (2012) and A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes (2014). He is also the translator of The Marvellous (But Authentic) Adventures of Captain Corcoran (2016) by Alfred Assollant.
Humans are, in fundamental ways, a migratory species, more so than any other land mammal. For most of our existence, we were all nomads, and some of us still are. Houses and permanent settlements are a relatively late development - dating back little more than twelve thousand years. Borders and passports are much more recent. From the Neanderthals, Alexander the Great, Christopher Columbus and Pocahontas to the African slave trade, Fu Manchu, and Barack Obama, Migrants shows us that it is only by understanding how migration and migrants have been viewed in the past, that we can re-set the terms of the modern-day debate about migration.'Enjoyable, provocative and timely' Spectator'Thoughtful... offers a whole new way of seeing the world' Financial Times'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph