Philip D. Curtin (1922–2009)
Author of Africa and Africans
About the Author
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philip de Armond Curtin was educated at Swarthmore College and at Harvard University, from which he received a Ph.D. in history in 1953. That same year he joined the Swarthmore faculty as an instructor and assistant professor. In 1956, he moved on to the show more University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he remained for 14 years. During that time he was chair of the Wisconsin University Program in Comparative World History, the Wisconsin African Studies Program, and for five years, Melville J. Herskovits Professor. In 1975, he joined the department of history at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to holding Guggenheim fellowships in 1966 and 1980 and being a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Curtin has taken a leadership role in various organizations, including the African Studies Association, the International Congress of Africanists, and the American Historical Association. He also has gained recognition for his influential books on African history, including The Image of Africa (1964), Africa Remembered (1967), and The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (1969). In the latter, he demonstrated that the number of Africans who reached the New World during the centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade had been highly exaggerated. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Philip D. Curtin
The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire (2000) 58 copies
Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century (1989) 18 copies
The Tropical Atlantic in the Age of Slave Trade (Essays on Global and Comparative History Series) (1991) 8 copies
AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA 2 copies
Why People Move: Migration in African History (Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures, 16th.) (1995) 2 copies
Latin America 1 copy
The Islamic World 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Curtin, Philip DeArmond
- Birthdate
- 1922-05-22
- Date of death
- 2009-06-04
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Place of death
- West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Webster Springs, West Virginia, USA
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA - Education
- Harvard University (PhD)
Swarthmore College (BA) - Occupations
- historian
- Relationships
- Curtin, Phyllis (spouse | divorced)
- Organizations
- Swarthmore College
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Johns Hopkins University
American Historical Association (president | 1983) - Awards and honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship
MacArthur Fellowship
National Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellowship
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Statistics
- Works
- 28
- Members
- 784
- Popularity
- #32,462
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 7
- ISBNs
- 61
- Languages
- 3