Patrick Manning, Migration in World History. Routledge, 2013 2nd ed.

Comparative Civilizations Review, May 2017

By Connie Lamb, Published on 04/25/17

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Patrick Manning, Migration in World History. Routledge, 2013 2nd ed.

Patrick Manning , Migration in World Histor y. Connie Lamb 0 1 0 Part of the Comparative Literature Commons , History Commons, International and Area 1 Thi s Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Comparative Civilizations Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information , please contact Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr Studies Commons, Political Science Commons, and the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation - Article 20 Patrick Manning, Migration in World History, 2nd ed.. Routledge, 2013. Reviewed by Connie Lamb This book is part of the series, Themes in World History, which proposes to provide exciting, new and wide-ranging surveys of the important themes of world history. Each theme is examined over a broad period of time allowing analysis of continuities and change. Manning’s book certainly fits this pattern, in its broad time coverage, analysis of local movements, and historical methods for discussing migration. Manning defines human migration simply as the “movement from one place to another and from one social context to another” (191). Patrick Manning is a well-known world historian and is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a specialist on Africa and has written many books and articles on world history and African topics. Besides being a teacher and author, Manning is the president of the World History Network, Inc. a nonprofit corporation fostering research and graduate study in world history. His education includes a BS in chemistry with a minor in history from the California Institute of Technology and a Masters in history and economics as well as a PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was trained as a specialist in the economic history of Africa and went on to explore demographic, social, and cultural patterns in Africa and the African diaspora. Manning has published numerous articles and several books and teaches classes on world history and interdisciplinary methodology, the use of which is evident in his world migration book. He has been active in the American Historical Association and is currently serving as the President of that society. This book on migration seems to build on his past work about Africa and global history, especially two of his books, World History: Global and Local Interactions (2005) and Migration History in World History (2010). Migration in World History is organized chronologically but by topic within time periods. There are many books on migration, but Manning’s has a unique approach, covering the entire history of the world with a broad scope of places and topics. Most other authors discuss current migrations globally or focus on particular places or peoples. Chapter one, as the introduction, talks about modeling patterns of human migration, giving various methods of research and Manning’s own way of studying local and global human migration. Chapter two covers the emergence of human beings and their earliest migrations to 40,000 BP. The next seven chapters discuss large time periods and issues that characterize them: peopling northern and American regions, agriculture, commerce, modes of movement, spanning the oceans, labor for industry and empire, and urbanization to 2000. Many disciplines may be used to study migration including sociology, anthropology, economics, linguistics, history, archaeology, demographics, genetics, chemistry and political science. Manning sets out his theory or model of migration by defining a human Comparative Civilizations Review 159 community as the speakers of a given language, so he bases his work mainly on linguistics. He then identifies four categories of human migration: home-community migration, colonization, whole-community migration, and cross-community migration. Manning focuses mainly on the last one: cross-community migration (7). Cross-community migrants are generally rather small in number and the author categorizes them as settlers, sojourners, itinerants and invaders. Settlers are those who move to join an existing community with the intent to remain there; sojourners are those moving to a new community with the intent to return to their home community; itinerants move from community to community but have no single home to which they expect to return; invaders are those who arrive as a group in a community with the objective of seizing control rather than joining. Migrants may journey on their own, but, more often than not, their movement is facilitated by cross-community networks that involve cooperation across distance and across boundaries of language and culture, aiding the movement of migrants from one place to another (8-9). As individuals and groups move, they may absorb the culture and language of their new locale, and they may, in turn, affect the co (...truncated)


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