The African Diaspora: A History through Culture

The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture

Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories together, Manning shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shape across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces five central themes: the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community; discourses on race; changes in economic circumstance; the character of family life; and the evolution of popular culture. His approach reveals links among seemingly disparate worlds. In the mid-nineteenth century, for example, slavery came under attack in North America, South America, southern Africa, West Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and India, with former slaves rising to positions of political prominence. Yet at the beginning of the twentieth century, the near-elimination of slavery brought new forms of discrimination that removed almost all blacks from government for half a century. Manning underscores the profound influence that the African diaspora had on world history, demonstrating the inextricable link between black migration and the rise of modernity, especially in regards to the processes of industrialization and urbanization. A remarkably inclusive and far-reaching work, The African Diaspora proves that the advent of modernity cannot be imaginatively or comprehensively engaged without taking the African peoples and the African continent as a whole into account.

History

Manning, Patrick

Africa

Oxford University Press

Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories together, Manning shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shape across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces five central themes: the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community; discourses on race; changes in economic circumstance; the character of family life; and the evolution of popular culture. His approach reveals links among seemingly disparate worlds. In the mid-nineteenth century, for example, slavery came under attack in North America, South America, southern Africa, West Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and India, with former slaves rising to positions of political prominence. Yet at the beginning of the twentieth century, the near-elimination of slavery brought new forms of discrimination that removed almost all blacks from government for half a century. Manning underscores the profound influence that the African diaspora had on world history, demonstrating the inextricable link between black migration and the rise of modernity, especially in regards to the processes of industrialization and urbanization. A remarkably inclusive and far-reaching work, The African Diaspora proves that the advent of modernity cannot be imaginatively or comprehensively engaged without taking the African peoples and the African continent as a whole into account.

The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)

Columbia University Press

This fascinating study traces the connections among regions brought about by the movement of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas. Drawing on examples from a wide range of geographical regions and thematic areas, Manning covers: * earliest human migrations, including the earliest hominids, their development and spread, and the controversy surrounding the rise of homo sapiens * the rise and spread of major language groups * examination of civilizations, farmers and pastoralists from 3000 BCE to 500 CE * trade patterns including the early Silk Road and maritime trade in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean * the effect of migration on empire and industry between 1700 and 1900 * the resurgence of migration in the later twentieth century, including movement to cities, refugees and diasporas.

Migration in World History (Themes in World History)

World

Routledge

This fully revised and updated second edition of Migration in World History traces the connections among regions brought about by the movement of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas.  Drawing on examples from a wide range of geographical regions and thematic areas, noted world historian Patrick Manning guides the reader through:   the earliest human migrations, including the earliest hominids, their development and spread, and the controversy surrounding the rise of homo sapiens   the rise and spread of major language groups (illustrated with original maps)   an examination of civilizations, farmers and pastoralists from 3000 BCE to 500 CE   trade patterns including the early Silk Road and maritime trade in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean   the effect of migration on empire and industry between 1700 and 1900   the resurgence of migration in the later twentieth century, including movement to cities, refugees and diasporas   the various leading theories and debates surrounding the subject of migration.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

This fully revised and updated second edition of Migration in World History traces the connections among regions brought about by the movement of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas. Drawing on examples from a wide range of geographical regions and thematic areas, noted world historian Patrick Manning guides the reader through: <ul>
<li>the earliest human migrations, including the earliest hominids, their development and spread, and the controversy surrounding the rise of homo sapiens</li> <li>the rise and spread of major language groups (illustrated with original maps)</li> <li>an examination of civilizations, farmers and pastoralists from 3000 BCE to 500 CE</li> <li>trade patterns including the early Silk Road and maritime trade in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean</li> <li>the effect of migration on empire and industry between 1700 and 1900</li> <li>the resurgence of migration in the later twentieth century, including movement to cities, refugees and diasporas</li> <li>the various leading theories and debates surrounding the subject of migration.</li> </ul>

This interactive multimedia curriculum on CD-ROM goes beyond the mere chronicling of migratory paths to provide a springboard that allows students to explore a wide range of global issues in social, cultural, economic, and political history. Human migration is the story of individual lives enmeshed in the large themes of identity, culture, work, social institutions, and coercion. This link between individual experience and social forces makes migration an especially rich subject for the introductory study of world history.

Migrations CD-ROM with User Guide

Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc

The small but important region of Dahomey (now the People's Republic of Benin) has played an active role in the world economy throughout the era of mercantile and industrial capitalism, beginning as an exporter of slaves and becoming an exporter of plain oil and palm kernels. This book covers a span of three centuries, integrating into a single framework the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial economic history of Dahomey. Mr Manning has pieced together an extensive body of new evidence and new interpretations: he has combined descriptive evidence with quantitative data on foreign trade, slave demography and colonial government finance, and has used both Marxian and Neoclassical techniques of economic analysis. He argues that, despite the severe strain on population and economic growth caused by the slave trade, the economy continued to expand from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, and the colonial state acted as an economic depressant rather than a stimulant.

Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640–1960 (African Studies, Series Number 30)

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

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The African Diaspora: A History through Culture

The African Diaspora: A History through Culture

The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)

The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)

Migration in World History (Themes in World History)

Migration in World History (Themes in World History)

Migration in World History (Themes in World History)

Migration in World History (Themes in World History)

Migrations CD-ROM with User Guide

Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640–1960 (African Studies, Series Number 30)