标题: 菲利普-D-科廷 非洲历史学家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-3-1 19:57 标题: 菲利普-D-科廷 非洲历史学家 Philip D. Curtin
Historian of Africa | Class of February 1983
Title
Historian of Africa
Location
Baltimore, Maryland
Age
61 at time of award
Deceased
June 4, 2009
Area of Focus
African History
Published February 1, 1983
ABOUT PHILIP'S WORK
Philip Curtin was a historian of Africa, who also wrote on aspects of world history.
Curtin’s research varied widely, from Caribbean history and studies of nineteenth-century British “mentalities” concerning Africa, to the economic history of West Africa and the Atlantic basin. He wrote on historical economic anthropology and on the historical epidemiology of Africa and the tropical world. His books included: The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (1969), Africa and Africans (co-author, 1971), Economic Change in Pre-Colonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade (1975), Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (1984), Death by Migration: Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century (1989), The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex (1990), and The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire (2000).
BIOGRAPHY
Curtin was the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor Emeritus of History at the Johns Hopkins University. Much of his career was spent at the University of Wisconsin, where he was founding chairman of the African Studies Program and the Program in Comparative World History.
Curtin received a B.A. (1948) from Swarthmore College, and an M.A. (1949) and a Ph.D. (1953) from Harvard University.
科廷的研究范围很广，从加勒比海历史和十九世纪英国对非洲的 "心理 "研究，到西非和大西洋盆地的经济史。 他撰写了关于历史经济人类学以及非洲和热带世界的历史流行病学。 他的著作包括 大西洋奴隶贸易。A Census (1969), Africa and Africans (co-author, 1971), Economic Change in Pre-Colonial Africa: 奴隶贸易时代的塞内冈比亚（1975年），世界历史上的跨文化贸易（1984年），移民之死。欧洲在十九世纪与热带世界的遭遇（1989年），种植园综合体的兴衰（1990年），以及《世界与西方》。欧洲的挑战和帝国时代的海外回应》（2000年）。