Migration in World History

Patrick Manning is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, Emeritus, at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directed the World History Center and the Center for Historical Information and Analysis. He is a past President of the American Historical Association, and is the author of A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System (2020); Methods for Human History: Studying Social, Cultural, and Biological Evolution (2020); and The African Diaspora: A History through Culture (2009). His research includes African population and migration, 1650–1950, and human groups in social change.Tiffany Trimmer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA, and Executive Director of the university's Oral History Program. Her recent articles have appeared in Asian Review of World Histories and World History Connected.

"Migration in World History is the most revolutionary and innovative study of migration that has ever been written. It not only shows how systemic migration is for human societies, but also allows the reader to understand its different expressions (invaders, colonizers, sojourners and itinerants) and their impact on social change through time. Furthermore, it can be read as an alternative and truly global history through the lens of mobility and human interactions."Leo Lucassen, Director of the International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands"Patrick Manning’s Migration in World History displays a broad knowledge of world history that deemphasizes political and imperial interpretations of historical change. Drawing on genetics, anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology — in addition to a lifetime of historical research — Manning argues that the human 'pattern of accelerating innovation through discussion and migration' began not with the Industrial Revolution, nor even the advent of agriculture, but on a more epochal scale with the earliest human travels."Thomas M. Truxes, New York University, USA

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the first editionPreface to the second editionPreface to the third editionA Note on the Expression of Time1. Introduction: modeling patterns of human migration2. Earliest human migrations, to 40,000 BP3. Peopling northern and American regions, 40,000 to 15,000 BP4. Agriculture, 15,000 BP to 5000 BP5. Commerce, 3000 BCE to 500 CE6. Modes of movement, 500 CE to 1400 CE7. Spanning the Oceans, 1400 to 17008. Labor for industry and empire, 1700 to 19009. Diasporas and nations in expansion, 1900 to 198010. Migration in global transformation, 1980 to 2050Appendix: Migration theory and debatesReferences to AppendixIndex