© Columbia University Press
The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture
Paper, 424 pages, 44 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14471-1
$24.50
/ £17.00
May, 2009
Cloth, 424 pages, 44 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14470-4
$29.95
/ £19.95
"A substantial contribution . . . setting a useful benchmark for the relocation of Africa to the centre of global history." — Stacey Hynd, History
"This is a welcome addition to the field . . . Highly recommended." — Choice
"Readers will be impressed by the book's breadth and the arresting parallels it draws between events and dynamics taking place thousands of miles apart." — Foreign Affairs
"The work is impressive and valuable in its details and broad sweep of argument" — Micol Seigel, American Historical Review
"Manning's study is a superb attempt to bridge the gap between our understanding of the forced deportation of Africans into slavery and the continuing emigration" — Paul E. Lovejoy, Journal of African HistoryYork University
"A major achievement, an excellent book for both graduate and undergraduate students of African and African diaspora studies." — Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University
"A masterful survey that skillfully interweaves multiple themes across six centuries and several continents in crisp and lucid prose. The African Diaspora is a superb book that fills a void in the literature as well as a pressing need in the classroom." — Penny von Eschen, University of Michigan, editor of Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History
"Only Patrick Manning—a leading scholar in both African and world history—could have written this magnificent book. Anyone who wishes to understand the history of global Africa will be grateful that he did." — Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History
"The African Diaspora reflects Patrick Manning's many years of scholarly engagement and achievement and succeeds in creating a paradigmatic shift that bridges conceptual distances between Africa and its diaspora, while also demonstrating the substantive quality of that shift. Thoroughly researched and lucidly written, this study is a major contribution to the literature on black experience throughout the world, providing a convincing argument for relocating Africa and its peoples from the periphery to the center of global history." — Michael Gomez, New York University