Product Description: Big Data in History introduces a project to create a world-historical archive that will trace the last four centuries of historical dynamics and change. The archive will link research on social, economic, and political affairs, plus health and climate, for societies throughout the world...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This volume provides the fullest report on new world history research to date. In clear and lively prose, thirteen specialists in world history present their findings in three interconnected sections: the politics of empires and nations, the patterns of global migration, and the social struggles revealed through interdisciplinary analysis...read more

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. (view table of contents)

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Thirteen chronological and thematic units explore world history since 1500 through the issue of migration. Each unit includes sections on evidence, narrative, and analysis. Contains over 400 documents, including primary and secondary texts, images, maps,charts, databases, simulations, and audio and video selections. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The trade in slaves is perhaps the most notorious feature of the era of European expansion. Though begun in ancient times, and continued well after 1800, in the early modern period there developed a particular nexus in which it boomed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: More starkly than any other contemporary social conflict, the crisis in South Africa highlights the complexities and conflicts in race, gender, class, and nation. These original articles, most of which were written by South African authors, are from a special issue of the Radical History Review, published in Spring 1990, that mapped the development of interpretations of the South African past that depart radically from the official history...read more

This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves by Occidental and Oriental purchasers in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale slave exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century. While primarily a general survey, Dr. Manning presents original research and analysis, especially in his demographic model, computer simulation of slave trade and analysis of slave prices. By revealing clearly the succession of transformations which slavery brought throughout the African continent, the book shows in new depth the place of Africa in the history of the Atlantic basin, of western Asia and North Africa, and of the Indian Ocean. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A textbook which looks at the history of Sub-Saharan Africa, including the economic and social history, government and politics, culture and religion. The author weaves the European heritage of France and Belgium, of Africa and the forces of colonialism and capitalism into the story...read more