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  • The African Diaspora

    A History Through Culture

    by Patrick Manning ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Methods for Human History

    Studying Social, Cultural, and Biological Evolution

    by Patrick Manning ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents a concise yet comprehensive survey of methods used in the expanding studies of human evolution, paying particular attention to new work on social evolution. The first part of the book presents principal methods for the study of biological, cultural, and social evolution, plus migration, group behavior, institutions, politics, and environment. The second part provides a ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Migration in World History

    by Patrick Manning, Tiffany Trimmer ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    In this third edition of Migration in World History, Patrick Manning presents an expanded and newly coherent view of migratory processes, conveying new research and interpretation. The engaging narrative shows the continuity of migratory processes from the time of foragers who settled the earth to farmers opening new fields and merchants linking purchasers everywhere. In the last thousand years, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A History of Humanity

    The Evolution of the Human System

    by Patrick Manning ...
    Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

    From Ancient Times to the Present

    by Cynthia Clark Northrup, Jerry H. Bentley, Alfred E. Eckes, Jr, Patrick Manning, Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik ...
    Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic ... Read more

    $600.99 USD

  • Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850

    Edited by Patrick Manning, Daniel Rood ...
    The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political landscape. Independence movements in Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world were catalysts for radical economic, social, and cultural reform. And it was during this age of revolutions—an era of rapidly expanding scientific ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980

    Edited by Patrick Manning, Mat Savelli ...
    The second half of the twentieth century brought extraordinary transformations in knowledge and practice of the life sciences. In an era of decolonization, mass social welfare policies, and the formation of new international institutions such as UNESCO and the WHO, monumental advances were made in both theoretical and practical applications of the life sciences, including the discovery of life’s ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Knowledge in Translation

    Global Patterns of Scientific Exchange, 1000-1800 CE

    Edited by Patrick Manning, Abigail Owen ...
    In the second millennium CE, long before English became the language of science in the twentieth century, the act of translation was crucial for understanding and disseminating knowledge and information across linguistic and geographic boundaries. This volume considers the complexities of knowledge exchange through the practice of translation over the course of a millennium, across fields of ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Slave Trades, 1500–1800

    Globalization of Forced Labour

    Edited by Patrick Manning ...
    Series series An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800
    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. This volume distinguishes between procurement and trade, and the exploitation of settled slaves (the subject of a separate volume in the series, edited by Judy ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Social Movements and World-System Transformation

    Edited by Jackie Smith, MICHAEL GOODHART, Patrick Manning, John Markoff ...
    Series series Political Economy of the World-System Annuals
    At a particularly urgent world-historical moment, this volume brings together some of the leading researchers of social movements and global social change and other emerging scholars and practitioners to advance new thinking about social movements and global transformation. Social movements around the world today are responding to crisis by defying both political and epistemological borders, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development

    Visions, Remembrances, and Explorations

    Edited by Patrick Manning, Barry K. Gills ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    This work focuses on the ideas and influence of Andre Gunder Frank, one of the founding figures and leading analysts of political economy at the global level. Through discussion of his work the contributors in this volume examine the shifting currents of the world economy and the accompanying controversies, advances, and regressions in the understanding of global patterns in present and past.Frank ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Colonizer's Model of the World

    Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

    by J. M. Blaut ...
    This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD