| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Patrick Manning. Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. xiii, 425. $29.95.
The fundamental purpose of this book by Patrick Manning is to encourage more extensive research and graduate training in world history. The book thus deliberately contrasts with the more common world history discussions of survey course issues. In no sense does it discourage attention to teaching—and indeed, teaching experience is a vital component of the proposed extension of graduate education, but the focus lies elsewhere. Correspondingly, the book's most obvious audience will consist of graduate students and younger scholars, for whom this is an indispensable, if at times slightly frustrating, guide. Instructors in world history, for example the growing cadre of Advanced Placement teachers, will benefit from the book as well, but they can read more selectively.	1
All sections of the book reflect Manning's impressively wide reading, and the references alone will reward readers from graduate students to more senior historians. A number of key examples, for instance in the discussion of cultural history, are drawn from Africa, the author's own field and a region properly noted as needing more attention in world history work overall. No section of the book fully discusses regional disparities in relevant scholarship, however, and some readers may be disappointed at a lack of focused comment on the Americas, although there are plenty of citations.	. . .

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