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Why Africa dropped off history's map
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The Discovery of Mankind By David Abulafia YALE UP Pounds 25
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In recent years, "Atlantic history" has opened up in recognition
that narrow histories of Europe or the US fail our international
era. Although for most people the Atlantic is an ocean, for many
historians it is now the place where "our understanding of human
nature began to emerge".
No book has really popularised Atlantic history, but this one
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Drang Nach Osten: Bernard Bailyn, the world-island, and the idea of Atlantic history.
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