Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World

Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World Historians in Conversation - Historians in Conversation

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This book presents new approaches to understanding African history from major historians of the subject matter. This collection of articles and forums by prominent historians explores the relationship of Africa to world history, maps the current state of the burgeoning field of Atlantic history, and debates the accuracy of Olaudah Equiano's seminal narrative. The standard approach of world historians often compresses the African past into interpretive frameworks that leave Africans without a history of their own. Joseph C. Miller makes the case here for an alternative approach, a multicentric world history that gives voice to the various ways Africans experienced the past, and an impressive array of Africanist and world historians respond.The volume also assesses the state of the field of Atlantic history and includes a spirited forum on Vincent Carretta's provocative thesis that Olaudah Equiano, author of the most important account available of the horrific Middle Passage, was actually born in South Carolina and not Africa. Designed to serve as a companion text for courses in African, Atlantic, and world history, this volume will also appeal to lay readers interested in contemporary approaches to these topics. The contributors are Trevor Burnard, Vincent Carretta, Ricardo Duchesne, Paul E. Lovejoy, Patrick Manning, William H. McNeill, Joseph C. Miller, David Northrup, Jonathan T. Reynolds, Michael Salman, Jon Sensbach, Ajay Skaria, and John K. Thornton.

Book information

ISBN: 9781570037573
Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of South Carolina Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 960.072
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 363g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 18mm