Product Description: In the 1950s professional historians claiming to specialize in tropical Africa were no more than a handful. The teaching of world history was confined to high school courses, and even those focused on European history. Philip Curtin developed a sound methodology for teaching world history and, always a controversial figure, revived the study of the history of the Atlantic slave trade...read more

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Product Description: These papers explore the history of the tropical regions of the Atlantic basin, sometimes focused on the Caribbean, sometimes on Africa, but always with a comparative dimension. The Atlantic basin is central to most of these comparisons, but they are a part of an even broader effort to capture the perspective of world history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

With its rich evolutionary record of natural systems and long history of human activity, the Chesapeake Bay provides an excellent example of how a great estuary has responded to the powerful forces of human settlement and environmental change. Discovering the Chesapeake explores all of the long-term changes the Chesapeake has undergone and uncovers the inextricable connections among land, water, and humans in this unusually delicate ecosystem.Edited by a historian, a paleobiologist, and a geologist at the Johns Hopkins University and written for general readers, the book brings together experts in various disciplines to consider the truly complex and interesting environmental history of the Chesapeake and its watershed. Chapters explore a variety of topics, including the natural systems of the watershed and their origins; the effects of human interventions ranging from Indian slash-and-burn practices to changing farming techniques; the introduction of pathogens, both human and botanical; the consequences of the oyster's depletion; the response of bird and animal life to environmental factors introduced by humans; and the influence of the land and water on the people who settled along the Bay. Discovering the Chesapeake, originating in two conferences sponsored by the National Science Foundation, achieves a broad historical and scientific appreciation of the various processes that shaped the Chesapeake region."Today's Chesapeake Bay is only some ten thousand years old. What a different world it was... when the region was the home of the ground sloth, giant beaver, dire wolf, mastodon, and other megafauna. In the next few thousand years, the ice may form again and the Bay will once more be the valley of the Susquehanna, unless, of course, human-induced changes in climate create some other currently unpredictable condition."—from the Introduction (view table of contents)

Product Description: From 1815 to 1914, death rates of European soldiers, serving both at home and abroad, dropped by nearly ninety percent. But this drop applied mainly to soldiers in barracks. Soldiers on campaign, especially in the tropics, continued to die from disease at rates as high as ever...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The two Jamaicas, one oriented toward Europe and the other toward Africa, operated in a symbiotic relationship during the 19th century. This work states that this symbiosis, instead of creating an equilibrium, promoted an ambivalence that eventually became Jamaican.

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Product Description: The Atlantic slave trade was one of the greatest intercontinental migrations in world history. Today, about one-third of all people of African descent live outside Africa. Yet the historical record of the slaved trade remains curiously uneven...read more

Product Description: Professor Curtin presents a well-defined interpretation of why migration has occurred in Africa, highlighting numerous sociopolitical and socioeconomic factors. According to Curtin, the most consistent reason for migration within Africa and into and out of Africa was the possession of technological advantage...read more

Product Description: Book by Curtin, Philip D.

Product Description: From the beginning of European trade and conquest overseas, Europeans have known they died from the effect of the strange "climate." Later, they came to understand that it was disease, not climate, that killed, but the fact remained that every trading voyage, every military expedition beyond Europe, had its price in European lives lost...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more

Organized primarily by regions, this overview of the history of the African continent emphasizes social, economic, and intellectual trends and the problems resulting from changing ways of life

An examination of the dealings of the African traders and their influence on the Senegambian economy from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Bibliogs

An examination of the dealings of the African traders and their influence on the Senegambian economy from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Bibliogs

In this encyclopedic work of intellectual history, Philip D. Curtain sought to discover the British image of Africa for the years 1780-1850.

Analyzes African reactions to the Slave trade, European colonization, and periods of Afro-European interaction since the late-nineteenth century

Analyzes African reactions to the Slave trade, European colonization, and periods of Afro-European interaction since the late-nineteenth century