World history—for africa, against europe

Abstract

Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past. By Patrick Manning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 384 pp. £50.00 cloth; £18.99 paper.

Notes

 Bogumil Jewsiewicki, “The African Prism of Immanuel Wallerstein.” Radical History Review 38 (1987):50–68.

 John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998):7.

 See Ricardo Duchesne, “Between Sinocentrism and Eurocentrism: Debating Andre Gunder Frank's Re-Orient.” Science & Society 65:4 (2001–2002): 428–463.

 Friedrich Nietszche, The Portable Nietszche, ed. W. Koufmann (New York: Viking Press, 1954): 170.

 For an excellent collection of writings on recent “world-centric” trends in world history by all the above-mentioned historians and many others, see Ross Dunn, ed., The New World History, A Teacher Companion (Boston: Bedford/St Martin's, 2000).

 These stories can be found in a recent wave of influential works including Bin Wong (1997); A. G. Frank (1998): Kenneth Pomeranz (2000); and James Lee and Wang Fen (2001). For a critical assessment of these books, see Ricardo Duchesne, “What is Living and What is Dead in Eurocentrism,” Comparative Civilizations Review 47 (2002): 25–44; “The Post-Malthusian world began in the eighteenth century: A reply to Goldstone and Wong,” Science & Society 67, 2 (2003); “Malthus and the Demographic Systems of Modern Europe and Imperial China: A critique of Lee and Feng,” Review of Radical Political Economics, 35, 4 (2003): 534–542. “On the Rise of the West: Researching Kenneth Pomeranz's Great Divergence,” Review of Radical Political Economies, 36, 1 (2004): 52–81.

 Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilizations (London: Penguin Books, 1995), 124.

 The Song is “Guilty Conscience” from The Slim Shady LP (1999).