David Henige
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American historian, bibliographer, academic librarian and Africanist scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Patrick Henige is an American historian, bibliographer, academic librarian and Africanist scholar. The majority of Henige's academic career has been spent in affiliation with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where for over three decades he held the position of bibliographer in African studies at UW–Madison's Memorial Library.
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- The chronology of oral tradition;: Quest for a chimera, (1974) (110)
- The problem of feedback in oral tradion:four examples form the Fante coastlands (1973) (37)
- Colonial governors from the fifteenth century to the present;: A comprehensive list, (1970) (27)
- Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It (2016) (24)
- Measuring the Immeasurable: The Atlantic Slave Trade, West African Population and the Pyrrhonian Critic (1986) (23)
- Reflections on Early Interlacustrine Chronology: An Essay in Source Criticism (1974) (22)
- Primary source by primary source? On the role of epidemics in new world depopulation. (1986) (22)
- Impossible to Disprove Yet Impossible to Believe: the Unforgiving Epistemology of Deep-Time Oral Tradition (2010) (22)
- Oral Tradition and Chronology (1971) (22)
- On the contact population of Hispaniola: history as higher mathematics (1978) (17)
- John Kabes of Komenda: An Early African Entrepreneur and State Builder (1977) (17)
- Kingship in Elmina before 1869 : A Study in 'Feedback' and the Traditional Idealization of the Past. (1974) (14)
- The National Archives of Ghana: A Synopsis of Holdings (1973) (14)
- Epistemological Dead End and Ergonomic Disaster? The North American Collections Inventory Project. (1987) (12)
- ‘This is the place:’ putting the past on the map (2007) (11)
- Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices . By Ruth Finnegan. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Pp. xviii + 284. £12.99, paperback. (1992) (11)
- Agaja and the Slave Trade: Another Look at the Evidence (1976) (11)
- Truths yet Unborn? Oral Tradition as a Casualty of Culture Contact (1982) (10)
- Discouraging Verification: Citation Practices across the Disciplines (2006) (10)
- The Human Relations Area Files: Two Perspectives. (1985) (10)
- On the Current Devaluation of the Notion of Evidence: A Rejoinder to Dobyns (1989) (9)
- We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s (2017) (9)
- The Race is Not Always to the Swift: Thoughts on the Use of Written Sources for the Study of Early African History (1987) (9)
- Found But Not Lost: A Skeptical Note on the Document Discovered in the Temple under Josiah (2007) (9)
- Reply [to Zambardinos critique of "On the contact population of Hispaniola. History as higher mathematics"] (1978) (8)
- The Libro de las Profecias of Christopher Columbus. An en face Edition. (1992) (8)
- Can a Myth Be Astronomically Dated (1999) (8)
- Akan stool succession under colonial rule—continuity or change? (1975) (8)
- 'Companies Are Always Ungrateful': James Phipps of Cape Coast, a Victim of the African Trade (1980) (6)
- The Context, Content, and Credibility of La Florida del Ynca (1986) (6)
- Gold Coast Diaries: Chronicles of Political Officers in West Africa (2001) (6)
- The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science (2016) (5)
- Text, Context, Intertext: Columbus' diario de a bordo as Palimpsest (1989) (5)
- Waiting for the Great Pumpkin? On the Whereabouts of Justification in Library Research: A Symposium. (1992) (5)
- Mis/Adventures in Mis/Quoting (2001) (5)
- Omphaloskepsis and the Infantilizing of History (1995) (5)
- Commas, Christians, and Editors (2005) (4)
- ″Day was of sudden turned into night″: On the Use of Eclipses for Dating Oral History (1976) (4)
- When bad is good enough: The lowest common denominator in reference publishing and reviewing (1991) (4)
- Adom/Supome and Jabi/Yarbiw: Cases of Identity in a Period of Shifting Paramontcies (1975) (4)
- Comparative Chronology and the Ancient Near East: A Case for Symbiosis (1986) (4)
- A Snare and a Delusion (Or, Danger, Europeans at Work) (1978) (3)
- Deciduous, Perennial or Evergreen? The Choices in the Debate over ‘Early Israel’ (2003) (3)
- Authorship Renounced: The 'Found' Source in the Historical Record (2009) (3)
- The Alchemy of Turning Fiction into Truth (2008) (3)
- Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest (review) (1999) (3)
- Royal Tombs and Preterhuman Ancestors: A Devil's Advocacy (1977) (3)
- He came, he saw, we counted : the historiography and demography of Caesar's gallic numbers (1998) (3)
- Being Fair to the Hounds: The Function and Practice of Annotation, II (2002) (3)
- Indexing: A Users' Perspective (2002) (3)
- If Pigs Could Fly: Timucuan Population and Native American Historical Demography@@@Their Number Become Thinned: Native American Population Dynamics in Eastern North America (1986) (3)
- Columbian Consequences, II, Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East (1992) (3)
- Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present: A Comprehensive List (1971) (3)
- In Search of Columbus: The Sources for the First Voyage@@@The Libro de las profecias of Christopher Columbus (1993) (3)
- “It Is a Job I Would Like” (2010) (2)
- Herodotus' median chronology from a slightly different perspective (2004) (2)
- Are Bibliographers Like Shortstops? Gresham's Law and Africana Bibliography (1990) (2)
- A war of Pots and Kettles: The Dubious Discourse of W.G. Dever (2006) (2)
- Princely States of India: A Guide to Chronology and Rulers (2006) (2)
- In the Wake of In the Wake of Columbus: Why the Polemic Over Columbus' First Landfall is of Interest to Africanist Historians (1987) (2)
- Inscriptions are Texts Too1 (2005) (2)
- “Twixt the Cup and the Lip:” Field Notes on the Way to Print (1998) (2)
- In Quest of Error's Sly Imprimatur: The Concept of “Authorial Intent” in Modern Textual Criticism (1987) (2)
- Komenda fort in 1778: commentary on a document (1974) (2)
- Survival of the Fittest? Darwinian Adaptation and the Transmission of Information (2003) (2)
- GUANAHANI THE ELUSIVE: THE COLUMBUS LANDFALL DEBATE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1992) (2)
- From Tongue to Text (1989) (1)
- The Scramble for West Africa (1972) (1)
- Being Fair to the Hounds: The Function and Practice of Annotation* (2001) (1)
- A Tale of Two Journals (2004) (1)
- Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past (review) (2004) (1)
- Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble: the Ergonomics of African History1 (2007) (1)
- Generation-counting and late New Kingdom chronology (1981) (1)
- Putting the Horse Back Before the Cart: Recent Encouraging Signs (1986) (1)
- Or Not: The Place of Disputation in Scholarly Communication (2007) (1)
- Recent Work and Prospects in American Indian Contact Population (2008) (1)
- Millennarian archaeology, double discourse, and the unending quest for de Soto (1996) (1)
- One-Eyed Men in the Kingdom of the Blind (2001) (1)
- Translated Bosman Finally Corrected (2013) (1)
- Some Important Collections of Catholic Missionary Journals in North America (1979) (1)
- Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico by Amber Brian (2017) (0)
- Schiller, Dan. How to Think about Information. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 267p. $35 (ISBN 0252031326). LC 2006-011275. (2007) (0)
- The Cherokees: A Population History. By Russell Thornton with C. Matthew Snipp and Nancy Breen. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. xvi + 237 pp. $35.00.) (1991) (0)
- Ruth Finnegan, Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices, London and New York, Routledge, 1992, Pp. xviii + 284, £12.99. ISBN 0-415-04841-9. (1992) (0)
- The End of Absence/Virtual Unreality (2015) (0)
- Erratum (2001) (0)
- A Population History of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 5001650. By Gary Warrick (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 296 pp. $80.00 (2009) (0)
- The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus. Valerie I. J. FlintThe Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589. Beatriz Pastor Bodmer , Lydia Longstreth Hunt (1995) (0)
- Josephus and the Tyrian Kinglist (2009) (0)
- Arms Proliferation: A Few More Serial Bibliographies of Interest to Africanist Historians (1984) (0)
- A Population History of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500–1650 (review) (2009) (0)
- Access To-And Impact Of-Book Reviews (2007) (0)
- Lessons in Censorship: How School and Courts Subvert Students’ First Amendment Rights (2017) (0)
- Survey of research materials in the National Archives of Ghana (Mitteilungen der Basler Afrika Bibliographien, II) , By Raymond E. Dumett. Lempp Verlag, Gmünd, 1974. DM 8. (1975) (0)
- Book Reviews (2008) (0)
- Book reviews (2002) (0)
- The Power of Pink: Graphical Display as Imposed Epistemology (2003) (0)
- Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600. Edited by ANDREW PORTER. London: Oxford University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2002. Pp. xx+1060. £85 (ISBN 0-19-924991-1). (2004) (0)
- H. Faye Christenberry, Angela Courtney, Liorah Golcomb, and Melissa S. Van Vuuren. Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English: Strategies and Sources. Literary Research: Strategies and Source, 11. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2012. 262p. $60.00 (ISBN 9780810883833). LC 2012-009243 (2013) (0)
- Power and State Formation in West Africa: Appolonia from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century (2012) (0)
- Sinking Columbus: Contested History, Cultural Politics, and Mythmaking during the Quincentenary (review) (2002) (0)
- Miskolczy, Ambrus. Hitler’s Library. Trans. Ridey Szilvia and Michael Webb. Budapest: Central European Univ. Pr., 2003. 164p. $39.95 (ISBN 9639241598). LC 2003-12659. (2004) (0)
- A population history of North America. [Review of: Haines, M.R. and Steckel, R.H., ed. A population history of North America. New York: Cambridge U. Pr., 2000]. (2002) (0)
- Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast ed. by Clay Mathers, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, and Charles M. Haecker (review) (2014) (0)
- A Population History of North America. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000) 736 pp. $75.00 (2002) (0)
- A New Source for English Activities on the Gold Coast, 1681-1699 (1972) (0)
- Collecting and Safeguarding the Oral Traditions: An International Conference. Eds. John McIlwaine and Jean Whiffrin. Munich: K.G. Saur (IFLA Publications 95), 2001. 158p. $53 (ISBN 3598218257). (2002) (0)
- The Columbus Venture@@@In Search of Columbus: The Sources for the First Voyage@@@To America and around the World: The Logs of Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan (1992) (0)
- Travelling from the Truth (1997) (0)
- Procrustes or Proteus: Is Epistemology a Science? (2014) (0)
- "Enhanced Customer Loyalty" and the "Stockholm Syndrome" (2003) (0)
- Truth or Hope (2011) (0)
- History. John Iliffe. Honour in African History . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxiv + 404 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $28.99. Paper. (2006) (0)
- American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century (review) (2000) (0)
- Till Eulenspiegel among the Deconstructionists (2016) (0)
- Rich in the Wisdom of Hindsight (2003) (0)
- Pestilence and Persistence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California (review) (2010) (0)
- Yet More Serial Bibliographies (1985) (0)
- In Good Company: Problematic Sources and Biblical Historicity (2005) (0)
- American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century . By Nancy Shoemaker ( Albuquerque , University of New Mexico Press , 1999 ) 156 pp. $39.95 (2006) (0)
- Columbian Consequences, III, The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspectives (1993) (0)
- The Implausibility of Plausibility/The Plausibility of Implausibility (2016) (0)
- Bibliotheca Missionum: A Case of Benign Neglect (1978) (0)
- The Ethics of History (2009) (0)
- Truth and Its Putative Simulacra: How the Social Media Define Truth and Why That Should Worry Us (2017) (0)
- A Population History of North America (review) (2001) (0)
- Borgman, Christine L. From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pr., 2000. 324p. $42, alk. paper (ISBN 0-262-02473-x). LC 99-39906. (2001) (0)
- Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast. Edited by Clay Mathers, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, and Charles M. Haecker (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2013) 382 pp. $60.00 (2014) (0)
- Pestilence and Persistence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California. By Kathleen L. Hull (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2009) 374 pp. $45.00 (2010) (0)
- Truth or Hope?: Stimulus and Response in Scholarly Publishing (2010) (0)
- Are No Two Snowflakes Exactly Alike (2018) (0)
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