Migration and mortality in Africa and the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 / Philip D. Curtin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curtin, Philip D.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS701.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Migrations--Health aspects.

Human beings--Migrations.

Black people.

History.

African diaspora.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--18th century.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--19th century.

African diaspora--History--18th century.

African diaspora--History--19th century.

Black people--Latin America--History.

Latin America.

Black people--Caribbean Area--History.

Latin America--History.

Caribbean Area--History.

Caribbean Area.

Medical geography.

Human beings.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

Part I Caribbean History

I The Declaration of the Rights of Man in Saint-Domingue, 1788-1791 (The Hispanic American Historical Review 30. Durham, NC, 1950) 157

II The British Sugar Duties and West Indian Prosperity (Journal of Economic History 25. New York, 1951) 157

Part II African History

III Jihad in West Africa: Early Phases and Inter-Relations in Mauritania and Senegal (Journal of African History 12. New York, 1971) 11

IV The Lure of Bambuk Gold (Journal of African History 14. New York, 1972) 623

V Africa in the Wider Monetary World, 1250-1850 (Precious Metals in the Later Medieval and Early Modern World, ed. J.F. Richards. Durham, NC, 1983) 231

VI Africa and Global Patterns of Migration (Global History and Migrations, ed. Wang Gungwu. New York, 1997) 63

Part III Historical Epidemiology

VII 'The White Man's Grave': Image and Reality, 1780-1850 (Journal of British Studies 1. Chicago, 1961) 94

VIII Epidemiology and the Slave Trade (Political Science Quaterly 83. New York, 1961) 190

IX Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Tropical Africa (American Historical Review 90. Washington, DC, 1985) 594

X African Health at Home and Abroad (Social Science History 10. Durham, NC, 1986) 369

XI The End of the 'White Man's Grave'? Nineteenth-Century Mortality in West Africa (The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 21. Norfolk, MA, 1990) 63

XII Disease Exchange Across the Tropical Atlantic (The History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 15. London, 1993) 329

Part IV Environmental History

XIII The Environment Beyond Europe and the European Theory of Empire (Journal of World History 1. Honolulu, 1990) 131

XIV Location in History: Argentina and South Africa in the Nineteenth Century (Journal of World History 10. Honolulu, 1999) 41.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0860788334

OCLC:

45715071