新刊『黒人性に生まれて：アフリカ、アフリカ人、1470年から第二次世界大戦までの現代世界の構築』

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of Modern World, 1471to the Second World War, Howard W. French, Liveright Pub Corp, October 12, 2021

Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the "New World." Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and so on, ad infinitum. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been relegated to the remote outskirts of our global story. What if, instead, we put Africa and Africans at the very center of our thinking about the origins of modernity?