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Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World

Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World

Yerxa, Donald A.

Paperback

Series: Historians in Conversation

African HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 1570037582
ISBN13: 9781570037580
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Aug 29 2008
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

New approaches to understanding African history from major historians of the subject matter

Described as the New York Review of Books for history, Historically Speaking has emerged as one of the most distinctive historical publications in recent years, actively seeking out contributions from a pantheon of leading voices in historical discourse. 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.

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