Philip D. Curtin

Philip D. Curtin

Philip D. Curtin (born 1922)cite web |url= http://www.getcited.org/mbrz/11069453 |title= Prof. Philip D. Curtin|accessdate=2007-03-09 |work= getCITED.org|publisher=getCITED Inc] is a Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins Universitycite web |url= http://web.jhu.edu/history/people.html |title= Faculty Directory|accessdate=2007-03-09 |work=jhu.edu|Johns Hopkins University ] and historian on Africa and the Atlantic slave trade. He has published an estimate that from the 1500s to 1870, around 9,566,000 African slaves were imported to the Americas. (This figure, however, is disputed by Joseph E. Inikori, who argues for the higher estimate of around 15,000,000.)cite web |url= http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/civilwar/03/slavetrade.html |title=Atlantic Slave Trade |last=Schoenherr|first=Steve|accessdate=2007-03-09 |publisher=University of San Diego]

A MacArthur Fellow, Curtin has published a total of 19 books, which include "Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century", described by the American Historical Review (AHR) as "ground-breaking." In addition to the aforementioned calculation, he has challenged the commonly-held view that advances in medicine were responsible for increased attempts at European colonization of Africa in the 1800s.cite web |url= http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/104.5/br_10.html |title= The American Historical Review, 104.5: Book Review|accessdate=2007-03-09 |date=December 1995|work= History Cooperative|publisher=University of Illinois Press]

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