Philip D Curtin
Biographic Data
| ID | 146339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip D Curtin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip D |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtin |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIN P D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 135 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 134 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Epidemiology and the Slave Trade
Physical environment and climate obviously play a role, but epidemiological differences exist even where physical environment is the same. Childhood disease environment is the crucial factor in determining the immunities of a given adult population. On the shores of the pre-Columbian Atlantic, different immunities to disease were caused by different disease environments. Statistics on military mortality are the most useful source for the mortalit…
Pre-colonial trading networks and traders: The Diakhanké
The Diakhanke were a trading people inhabiting a number of scattered villages and towns in the hinterland of the Senegambia, especially in Wuli, Tanda, Niokholo, Futa Jallon, Bundu, Dentilia, and Bambuk. They had much in common with the Dioula, whom they regard as being a related people. Both claim Soninke origins but speak a dialect of Malinke; both trace their origins to Dia on the Niger; both were specialists in commerce during the pre-colonia…
The United States and Africa: A History
Illustrations and maps Preface Part I. The Slave Trade: 1. The transatlantic slave trade: an overview 2. The legal slave trade in North America 3. Ending the slave trade 4. The U.S. Navy and the antislavery campaign 5. The effects of the slave trade Part II. Commerce, Christianity, and Colonization Societies Up To 1865: 6. American traders and whalers 7. Missionaries and colonization societies 8. Explorers and frontiersmen Part III. The United St…
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland
Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830
This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history. Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse. These trajectories were synchronized…
The World and the West: A Roundtable Response
Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa
Philip D. Curtin, Disease and Empire: the health of European troops in the conquest of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 256 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 521 59835 4 hard covers, £16.95, ISBN 0 521 59169 4 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 3
Class Acts II: Texts and Contexts for African History
The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire
This book is a study of the interaction of the Western societies of Europe and America with others around the world in the past two centuries - the age of European empire. It deals with the European threat and the non-Western response, but the focus is on the ways in which people in Asia, Africa, and Indian America have tried to adapt their ways of life to the overwhelming European power that existed in this period. The challenge and the response…
The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire
continues to contribute to historical scholarship.He is a respected pioneer in world, comparative and Atlantic history, as well as the history of Africa and of the Caribbean, and has worked with methodologies as diverse as demography and the history of ideas
Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa
Location in History: Argentina and South Africa in the Nineteenth Century
This essay points to residential location as an important source of group interest, alongside the more familiar factors of race, class, and gender. This group interest is especially strong among people living in or dependent upon a particular city. This phenomenon is illustrated here through a variant of central-place theory applied to the history of South Africa and the Argentine pampa from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth century, with…
Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa
Preface 1. The West African disease background 2. The march to Magdala 3. The march to Kumasi 4. Conquest in the West African tropics, 1879-1900 5. Typhoid fever and the garrison of Egypt, 1882-1914 6. The typhoid campaigns: Northeastern Africa in the 1880s 7. The last campaigns in Eastern Africa: Madagascar and Omdurman, 1895-8 8. The Anglo-Boer War 9. Retrospect
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History
Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an economic order for the Americas, the plantation complex had an important place in world history. These essays concentrate on the intercontinental impact
Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History
Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century
Africa and Africans
Ghettoizing African History
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Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Colonial Tropical Africa
The slavery hypothesis for hypertension among African Americans: The historical evidence
The slavery hypothesis for hypertension has stated that the high blood pressures sometimes measured in African Americans are caused by one or more of these conditions: first, salt deficiency in the parts of Africa that supplied slaves for the Americas; second, the trauma of the slave trade itself; third, conditions of slavery in the United States. A review of the historical evidence shows that there was no salt deficiency in those parts of Africa…
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History
Migration in the Tropical World
This chapter locates European and African migration to North America in the long continuum of migrations throughout thousands of years of human history. It connects the geographic locus of migration and the occurrence of slave migration, indenture contracts, and free migration to changing demands for forced and free labor at various stages of regional economic development. Although the United States was certainly a focal point for European migrat…
Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century
The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census
Cross-Cultural Trade in World History
A single theme is pursued in this book - the trade between peoples of differing cultures through world history. Extending from the ancient world to the coming of the commercial revolution, Professor Curtin's discussion encompasses a broad and diverse group of trading relationships. Drawing on insights from economic history and anthropology, Professor Curtin has attempted to move beyond a Europe-centred view of history, to one that can help us und…
Economic Change in Pre-Colonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade
Epidemiology and the Slave Trade
Historians have begun to show a new interest in the slave trade. Recent developments in historical demographv, economic history, and the history of Africa have solved some of the old problems and posed new ones. The mere passage of time makes it possible to go beyond the largely humanitarian concerns of the nineteenth-century writers, concerns that arose out of the great debate over slavery as a question of policy. We can now accept the trade as …
Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Tropical Africa
EUROPEANS CONQUERED MOST OF TROPICAL AFRICA between 1880 and the First World War. This was also a period of rapid advance in tropical medicine. Malaria was by far the most serious threat to Europeans living in the African tropics, and the mosquito theory made its appearance just when colonial administrations were struggling to keep soldiers and administrators alive in a difficult environment. New currents in European thought about urban planning …
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History
Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an economic order for the Americas, the plantation complex had an important place in world history. These essays concentrate on the intercontinental impact
Jihad in West Africa: Early phases and inter-relations in Mauritania and Senegal
The tradition of religious revolution directed against partially Muslim rulers is traced to the religious reform movement among the zwāya of Mauritania in the 1660s, and to the jihad that brought them briefly into control of Futa Toro, Cayor, Walo, and Jolof in the 1670s. In spite of the reconquest of these states by their secular rulers and the re-establishment of Hassānī control in southwestern Mauritania, the tradition of religious revolt and …
Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade
Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century
This book is a quantitative study of relocation costs among European soldiers in the tropics between about 1815 and 1914. This study, however, has broader implications. For Europe itself, this was the crucial century of the 'mortality revolution', with its profound influence on European and world demographic history. For the history of medicine, this was the transitional century between the kind of medicine that had been practiced in Europe since…
The Atlantic Slave Trade. A Census
Sources of the Nineteenth Century Atlantic Slave Trade
A large proportion of the slaves captured at sea by the British Royal Navy during the early nineteenth century were landed at Sierra Leone. Statistical data on the make-up of the Sierra Leonean population at this period is available from several sources, and it provides some interesting clues to the scope and size of the slave trade from different parts of Africa
The White Man's Grave: ” Image and Reality, 1780-1850
There is a “black legend” about the climate of tropical countries, that lives on in spite of the knowledge geographers, meteorologists, and specialists in tropical medicine have gained over the past half century. With all the recent publicity given to West Africa, most people in the Western world carry a half-conscious image of “The White Man's Grave”. It is usually elaborated with such elements as “primitive tribes”, burning heat, fever-laden sw…
The lure of Bambuk gold
Bambuhu (called Bambouk by the French) was a principal source of the gold that made West Africa famous in the Muslim world north of the Sahara from the tenth century onward—and later among the Europeans. Much of the European activity on the Senegambian coast between the end of the fifteenth and the end of the nineteenth century was attracted by the promise of wealth from the ‘gold mines’ of Bambuhu. (Actually the gold came from alluvial ores near…
Africa and the West: Intellectual Responses to European Culture
Analyzes African reactions to the Slave trade, European colonization, and periods of Afro-European interaction since the late-nineteenth century
Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa
The Atlantic Slave Trade. A Census
African Universities and Western Tradition
Measuring the Atlantic Slave Trade
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The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History
Field Techniques for Collecting and Processing Oral Data
Oral tradition as a source for African history has been subject to a certain amount of controversy in recent decades. These discussions have clarified both the uses and the problems of oral data; they have.raised important methodological issues, but they have also beclouded others. At the higher theoretical levels, the debate has involved the philosophy of history and the nature of historical knowledge. These issues are both interesting and impor…
African Economic History: What Is It
Economic Change in Pre-Colonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade
Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa
Preface 1. The West African disease background 2. The march to Magdala 3. The march to Kumasi 4. Conquest in the West African tropics, 1879-1900 5. Typhoid fever and the garrison of Egypt, 1882-1914 6. The typhoid campaigns: Northeastern Africa in the 1880s 7. The last campaigns in Eastern Africa: Madagascar and Omdurman, 1895-8 8. The Anglo-Boer War 9. Retrospect
Cross-Cultural Trade in World History
African Studies: A Personal Assessment
The Declaration of the Rights of Man in Saint-Domingue, 1788-1791
The British Sugar Duties and West Indian Prosperity
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Two Jamaicas: The Role of Ideas in a Tropical Colony, 1830-1865.
The United States in the Caribbean
Essay| December 01 1955 The United States in the Caribbean Philip D. Curtin Philip D. Curtin Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College PHILIP D. CURTIN is Assistant Professor of History at Swarthmore College and has travelled widely in the Caribbean. He is the author of Two Jamaicas, published in September of this year and is a contributing editor of Current History. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Schol…
The Gold Coast
Essay| May 01 1956 The Gold Coast: Five Years After Philip D. Curtin Philip D. Curtin Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College PHILIP D. CURTIN is Assistant Professor of History at Swarthmore College and has recently returned from the Gold Coast. He is the author of Two Jamaicas, published in 1955, and is a contributing editor of Current History. Next fall he will be teaching in the history department at the University of Wisconsin, spe…
Two Jamaicas: The Role of Ideas in a Tropical Colony, 1830-1865
Journal Article Two Jamaicas: The Role of Ideas in a Tropical Colony, 1830–1865. By Philip D. Curtin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955. xiv + 270 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, notes, and index. $4.75.) Get access Edgar L. Erickson Edgar L. Erickson University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 42, Issue 4, March 1956, Pages 747–748, http…
The British Commonwealth . Frank H. Underhill Richard Jebb and the Problem of Empire . J. D. B. Miller
The Unification of South Africa, 1902-1910
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Smoke in the Hills: Political Tension in the Morogoro District of Tanganyika
The Archives of Tropical Africa: A Reconnaissance
As African governments have become richer of late, they have become more interested in their past, and the outside world has become more conscious that there is an African past worth investigating. Out of all these tendencies, colonial governments and newly-independent states alike have begun to put their government documents in order and to open them for historical research. This process of creating regular archives in tropical Africa has moved …
The White Man's Grave: ” Image and Reality, 1780-1850
There is a “black legend” about the climate of tropical countries, that lives on in spite of the knowledge geographers, meteorologists, and specialists in tropical medicine have gained over the past half century. With all the recent publicity given to West Africa, most people in the Western world carry a half-conscious image of “The White Man's Grave”. It is usually elaborated with such elements as “primitive tribes”, burning heat, fever-laden sw…
Smuts: The Sanguine Years, 1870-1919 . W. K. Hancock
The image of Africa: British ideas and action, 1780-1850.
Towns and Elephants
It is almost an accepted convention that no book shall deal with African exploration without some reference to Swift’s famous lines on cartography. Geographers of the early nineteenth century began the wholesale replacement of elephants with towns, at least in West Africa. The increase in geographical knowledge between 1790 and 1830 was greater than that of any comparable period. Explorers followed virtually the whole course of the Niger. They cr…
The Theory and Practice of Informal Empire
Political objectives were conspicuously missing from the British discussion of African affairs. Not only was government policy firmly opposed to annexation; few of the publicists for African activity even stressed the desirability of empire for the sake of empire. Few suggested that the power to command was worth having as a primary value, or that British dominion over Africa might be sought as a sign of British national glory and greatness. The …
Barbarism: Its Physical Causes
Faced, as they were, with the necessary adjustment to the era of "legitimate trade,"the British began to look more closely at African society. Any rationally conceived policy required some understanding of what Africa would become if left to herself, and what she might become under British influence. This understanding, in turn, called on the theoretical knowledge of scholars and scientists—on their beliefs about the nature of race, environment, …
New Jerusalems
It was clear by 1781 that Britain was losing the American war, and, as the old empire crumbled, it was equally clear that some basic adjustments would take place in her relations with the overseas world. Many of those with a special interest in Africa began to turn their attention to specific projects or suggestions for a new African policy. After a period of gestation in the first years of peace, the projects began to appear in quantity. Between…
West Africa in the New Century: A Pattern of Discovery
During the fifteen years in which the Sierra Leone Company unhappily carried out its experiments with colonization and legitimate trade, the British Empire was almost constantly at war, and the fortunes of war profoundly changed the British outlook on the world. Britain and the Allies were unable to hold Napoleon at bay in Europe, but the French were gradually deprived of all the most valuable parts of their tropical empire. Saint Domingue, in ch…
Reporting West Africa: Sources and Uses of Information
Even during the disinterested decade of the 1830’s, some new data continued to flow from West Africa to Britain, but the quality and quantity were both altered. Exploration no longer had its old appeal. With the Niger problem solved and “Timbuctu the mysterious” visited by two expeditions, the quarterlies turned to other matters. Travellers’ accounts were limited to the now-familiar regions of the Guinea coast.
Sierra Leone: The Lessons of Experience
The world-wide strategy of British affairs began to alter markedly in the mid 1790's. As the possibility of a quick victory over Revolutionary France faded, the global strategy of the eighteenth-century wars for empire was re-established. Where, in the decade of peace from 1783 to 1793, undeveloped regions like West Africa seemed at least potentially valuable, they were now pushed into the background. Old settlements of known value were available…
The Problem of Survival
During the whole of the nineteenth century, the most important problem for Europeans in West Africa was simply that of keeping alive. Until the 1840's the essential facts about the "climate" remained what they had been in the eighteenth century. Any European activity exacted an appalling price. Every assignment of missionaries or officials, every journey of exploration, every trading voyage or anti-slavery patrol took its toll. Unlike the situati…
West Africa in the South Atlantic Economy
British statesmen and publicists at most times thought of West Africa as a special region with its own individual problems. When they considered British economic interests and intentions, however, they thought in broader terms. The tropical Atlantic was still conceived as an inter-related economic entity, and with some justice. The flourishing South Atlantic System of the eighteenth century was no longer fully operating, but it was not yet comple…
West Africa: The Known and The Unknown
The decade between the Peace of Versailles in 1783 and the war with France in 1793 marked a phase of special importance in British relations with the world overseas. The loss of the thirteen American colonies closed an epoch, and seemed to close it decisively. Few in Britain looked back with nostalgia or wanted to found another family of settlement colonies like those in North America. Even fewer were willing to accept the military defeat as fina…
The Image of Africa
Language, Culture, and History
The literary tradition in African studies altered slowly as the mid-century approached, with nothing in the offing comparable to the Darwinian revolution which hung over biological sciences. If any revolutionary change had taken place, it was the eighteenth-century shift from an emphasis on static analysis of society to the nineteenth-century emphasis on historical or evolutionary analysis.1 This new attitude, however, was firmly in office by the…
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