TY - BOOK ID - 10839680 TI - The African diaspora : a history through culture PY - 2010 SN - 9780231144704 9780231513555 9780231144711 0231144717 0231513550 0231144709 1282897764 9781282897762 9786612897764 6612897767 PB - New York : Columbia University Press, DB - UniCat KW - African diaspora KW - Blacks KW - Black history KW - Black diaspora KW - Diaspora, African KW - Human geography KW - Africans KW - History. KW - Migrations KW - Africa KW - Civilization. KW - Africains KW - Noirs KW - Histoire KW - Afrique KW - Civilisation KW - History KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - #SBIB:96G KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Geschiedenis van Afrika KW - Black persons KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - Black people KW - Transatlantic slave trade KW - African diaspora - History. KW - Blacks - History. KW - Africa - Civilization. KW - Emigration and immigration. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10839680 AB - Patrick Manning follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In joining these stories, he shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shaping across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a g ER -