2013/11/01 by Patrick Manning · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Culture, Economy, and Development Studies #Anthropological Studies and Insights #African cultural and philosophical studies
paper · doi:10.1017/s0021853713000753
openalex publication_date 2013/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract African history and world history each became substantial fields of historical study in the aftermath of the Second World War. African history organized rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, an era dominated by modernization-thinking. World history developed slowly until the 1990s, then quickly expanded and generated institutional homes in a time of globalization-thinking. This piece considers issues of time, scale, and scholarly diversity within the two fields. The conclusion argues that world historians should pay more attention to Africa and that African historians should do more to set the African past in a global context.