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.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the third edition

A Note on the Expression of Time

1. Introduction: modeling patterns of human migration

2. Earliest human migrations, to 40,000 BP

3. Peopling northern and American regions, 40,000 to 15,000 BP

4. Agriculture, 15,000 BP to 5000 BP

5. Commerce, 3000 BCE to 500 CE

6. Modes of movement, 500 CE to 1400 CE

7. Spanning the Oceans, 1400 to 1700

8. Labor for industry and empire, 1700 to 1900

9. Diasporas and nations in expansion, 1900 to 1980

10. Migration in global transformation, 1980 to 2050

Appendix: Migration theory and debates

References to Appendix

Index