John Thornton

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According to Wikipedia, John K. Thornton is an American historian specializing in the history of Africa, the African Diaspora and the Atlantic world. He is a professor in the history department at Boston University. Biography

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Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: The birth of an Atlantic world (1992) (490)
The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa (1979) (169)
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (2007) (149)
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM (2000) (143)
The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold (1992) (130)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: Transformations of African culture in the Atlantic world (1998) (123)
The Development of an African Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1491–1750 (1984) (103)
African Dimensions of the Stono Rebellion (1991) (94)
The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, Its Empire, and beyond, 1540-1750 (1998) (89)
“I am the Subject of the King of Congo”: African Political Ideology and the Haitian Revolution (2012) (82)
Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 (1999) (80)
Cannibals, Witches, and Slave Traders in the Atlantic World (2003) (75)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: The development of commerce between Europeans and Africans (1998) (75)
The slave trade in eighteenth century Angola: effects on demographic structures (1980) (68)
The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641-1718 (1984) (65)
Central African names and African-American naming patterns (1993) (62)
On the Trail of Voodoo: African Christianity in Africa and the Americas (1988) (61)
Monumenta Missionaria Africana (1987) (57)
Demography and History in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1550–1750 (1977) (54)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 (2012) (42)
Early Kongo-Portuguese Relations: A New Interpretation (1981) (40)
The origins and early history of the Kingdom of Kongo, c. 1350-1550 (2001) (38)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 (1998) (37)
The African experience of the `20. and odd Negroes' arriving in Virginia in 1619 (1998) (36)
AFRO-CHRISTIAN SYNCRETISM IN THE KINGDOM OF KONGO* (2013) (34)
The Art of War in Angola, 1575–1680 (1988) (33)
Legitimacy and Political Power: Queen Njinga, 1624–1663 (1991) (25)
Precolonial African Industry and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1800 (1990) (24)
African Soldiers in the Haitian Revolution (2013) (23)
We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocentrism (2003) (19)
Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora: Religious and Ceremonial Life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500–1700 (2001) (19)
Writing African History (1987) (19)
East of Mina: Afro-European Relations on the Gold Coast in the 1550s and 1560s. An Essay with Supporting Documents (1989) (19)
CIVIL WAR IN THE KINGDOM OF BENIN, 1689–1721: CONTINUITY OR POLITICAL CHANGE? (2001) (16)
African Diaspora and the Black Experience in New World Slavery (1987) (16)
"When War Came, the Cattle Slept...": Himba Oral Traditions (1999) (16)
ELITE WOMEN IN THE KINGDOM OF KONGO: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN'S POLITICAL POWER (2006) (15)
African Fiscal Systems as Sources for Demographic History: the Case of Central Angola, 1799–1920 (1988) (14)
The Kingdom of Kongo, ca. 1390-1678. The Development of an African Social Formation (1982) (13)
The Kingdom of Kongo and Palo Mayombe: Reflections on an African-American Religion (2016) (12)
A Resurrection for the Jaga. (1978) (12)
The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History (2011) (12)
A History of West Central Africa to 1850 (2020) (11)
West Africa in the Mid-Seventeenth Century: An Anonymous Dutch Manuscript (1996) (11)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: The African Background (2012) (11)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: The Kongolese Saint Anthony (1998) (11)
Traditions, Documents, and the Ife-Benin Relationship (1988) (9)
New Light on Cavazzi's Seventeenth-Century Description of Kongo (1979) (9)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: Transfer and Retention in Language (2012) (8)
The Kingdom of Kongo (1983) (8)
Pulling Power from the Road (2014) (8)
The Origins of Kongo: A Revised Vision (2018) (7)
The Zambos and the Transformation of the Miskitu Kingdom, 1636–1740 (2017) (7)
The Correspondence of the Kongo Kings, 1614-35: Problems of Internal Written Evidence on a Central African Kingdom (1987) (7)
The Bamana Empire by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad and Colonization 1712-1920 (1996) (6)
Polybius in Context: The Political Dimension of the Histories (2013) (6)
The Kingdom of Kongo in the era of the civil wars, 1641-1718 (1979) (6)
Immuno-gold silver staining in the diagnosis of herpes encephalitis. (1986) (6)
'Canniball Negroes', Atlantic Creoles, and the identity of New England's Charter generation (2011) (6)
The state in African historiography: a reassessment (1973) (5)
The Kingdom of Kongo and the Counter Reformation (2013) (5)
Origin Traditions and History in Central Africa (2004) (4)
2. Kongo and Dahomey, 1660–1815. African Political Leadership in the Era of the Slave Trade and Its Impact on the Formation of African Identity in Brazil (2009) (4)
Les États de l’Angola et la formation de Palmares (Brésil)* (2008) (4)
How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600 (2005) (4)
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa: A Controlled Vocabulary for Linking Open-Source Data in Digital History Projects (2021) (4)
de Heusch Luc. Le roi de Kongo et les monstres sacrés: Mythes et rites bantous, III . Paris: Gallimard, 2000. 424 pp. Bibliography. Index. 130 F. Paper. (2001) (4)
War, The State, And Religious Norms In "Coromantee" Thought: The Ideology Of An African American Nation (2018) (4)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684 1706 (1998) (4)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: Three Atlantic Worlds (2012) (4)
The slave trade and the African diaspora (2015) (4)
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade (2018) (4)
Conquest and Theology: The Jesuits in Angola, 1548–1650 (2014) (3)
A RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE KONGO–PORTUGUESE WAR OF 1622 ACCORDING TO NEW DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE (2010) (3)
Simon Kimbangu. 1921: De la Prédication À la Deportation. Les Sources (2007) (3)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: Slavery and African social structure (1998) (3)
The Role of Rediscount Quotas: A Note (1985) (3)
Growth of opportunity (2010) (3)
New York African Burial Ground History Final Report. Report and Bibliography (2004) (3)
Africans into Creoles: Slavery, Ethnicity, and Identity in Colonial Costa Rica (2016) (3)
The State in African Historiography (1973) (3)
Armed Slaves and Political Authority in Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade, 1450–1800 (2006) (3)
The Kingdom of Kongo and the Thirty Years’ War (2016) (2)
Demography Production and Labor: Central Angola, 1890-1950 (1987) (2)
Teaching Africa in an Atlantic Perspective (2000) (2)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: Resistance, runaways, and rebels (1998) (2)
POSITIONS OF POWER (2010) (2)
Master or Dupe? The Reign of Pedro V of Kongo (2011) (2)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony : Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian movement, 1684-1706 (2000) (2)
THE REDEVELOPMENT OF BRACKEN HOUSE. (1994) (2)
The Chronicle as Source, History and Hagiography: The Catalogo dos Governadores de Angola (1987) (2)
The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages (2019) (2)
THE QUESTION OF CREDIBILITY (2010) (2)
L'Ancien Royaume du Congo et les Bakongo (Ndona Beatrice and Voici les Jagas) (2000) (2)
Les racines du vaudou. Religion africaine et société haïtienne dans la Saint-Domingue prérévolutionnaire (1998) (2)
Placing the Military in African History: A Reflection (2017) (2)
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective: Dahomey in the World: Dahomean Rulers and European Demands, 1726–1894 (2014) (2)
Firearms, Diplomacy, and Conquest in Angola (2011) (1)
War, Slavery and Revolt: African Slaves and Soldiers in the Atlantic World (2000) (1)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: African cultural groups in the Atlantic world (1998) (1)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800 (1998) (1)
Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone (review) (2004) (1)
Africa in a Multi-Centric World History: Beyond Witches and Warlords (2004) (1)
Emeri Cambier, correspondance du Congo, 1888-1899.: Un apprentissage missionnaire (2002) (1)
Histoire Demographique, Concept d'Ethnie/Recherches Diverses (1986) (1)
African Dimensions (2019) (1)
The Historian and Precolonial African Economy (1990) (1)
The Mombasa Rising Against the Portuguese, 1631: From Sworn Evidence . Edited by G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville. (Fontes Historiae Africanae, Series Varia I.) London: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 1980. Pp. lvii + 166, £32.50 (soft covers). (1981) (1)
THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF SLAVERY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD (2009) (1)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: Introduction (1998) (1)
The African Background to American Colonization (1996) (1)
A Note on the Archives of the Propaganda Fide and Capuchin Archives (1979) (1)
From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1830 (2011) (1)
IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA AND BEYOND The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire. By PHILLIP D. CURTIN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+294. $27.50/£19.95 (ISBN 0-521-77135-8). (2001) (1)
The role of Africans in the Atlantic economy, 1450-1650: modern Africanist historiography and the world-systems paradigm (1994) (1)
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution by Toby Green Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 640. $40 (hbk). (2020) (1)
Black Africans in Renaissance Europe (2006) (1)
Cahiers d’études africaines. Special issue. “Amériques noires” (1994) (0)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: Africans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world (1998) (0)
Cry Liberty: The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739 (2011) (0)
Approaching African History by Michael Brett (review) (2013) (0)
A History of the Church in Africa (review) (2003) (0)
A Slave Trade Miscellany (1990) (0)
Dictionary of Portuguese-African Civilization. Volume I: From Discovery to Independence (1997) (0)
The Revolutionary Moment in the Atlantic (2012) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Priests and Witches in Catholic Kongo (1998) (0)
James L. A. Webb, Jr. Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change along the Western Sahel, 1600–1850. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1995. Pp. xxvi, 227. Cloth $45.50, paper $19.95 (1997) (0)
African Diaspora, Religion in (2021) (0)
Monumenta Missionaria Africana, Volume XV (1435-1699) (1991) (0)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: Colonization (2012) (0)
all that noise (2011) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Facing the Fire (1998) (0)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: The American World, 1450–1700 (2012) (0)
African Traditional Religion and Christianity in the Formation of Vodun (2022) (0)
Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627–1660 (2005) (0)
Capuchin Missionaries in Kongo (1980) (0)
Amistad and African Slavery (1998) (0)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: Religious Stability and Change (2012) (0)
The process of enslavement and the slave trade (2017) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Appendix: A Recovery of the “Salve Antoniana” (1998) (0)
Pre-Colonial Central African History (1982) (0)
Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World. By Alexander X. Byrd. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xiv, 346 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3359-0.) (2009) (0)
Approaching African History. By Michael Brett (Rochester, N.Y., James Curry, 2013) 365 pp. $90.00 (2013) (0)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: The process of enslavement and the slave trade (1998) (0)
Slavery and Demography (1992) (0)
Paul E. Lovejoy. Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions. (2017) (0)
War in the Rivers: Senegambia and Sierra Leone (2000) (0)
Portugaliae Monumenta Africana, Volume V (2004) (0)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: Africans and Afro-Americans in the Atlantic world: life and labor (1998) (0)
Reviews of Books (2000) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Saint Anthony Arrives (1998) (0)
War in the Forest: The Gold Coast (2000) (0)
Africans in Africa (1998) (0)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: Aesthetic Change (2012) (0)
Comment on Jean-Pierre Warnier's "The Grassfields of Cameroon: Center or Periphery?" (2012) (0)
Angolan States and the Development of Palmares (Brazil) (2008) (0)
Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century (review) (2008) (0)
West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807–1844, by Manuel Barcia (2018) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Introduction (1998) (0)
The problem of slavery as history: a global approach By Joseph C. Miller. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. xii+218. Paperback £25.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11315-0 (2015) (0)
Warfare in Africa, 1500-1800 (2002) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: The Crisis in Faith and Force (1998) (0)
Penetrating New GroundA Design House Adapts a Radar Device in Search of a Wider Market. (1999) (0)
In search of the 1619 African arrivals (2019) (0)
Politics and religious change in the Kingdom of Kongo (1650-1900) (1978) (0)
Horses, Boats and Infantry: The Gap of Benin (2000) (0)
The European Background (2012) (0)
Paper Title: Juvenile Justice in Tanzania: The Law of the Child Act of 2009 and Beyond (2011) (0)
Toby Green, ed. Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Precolonial Western Africa . New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2012. xv + 415 pp. Map. Figures. Tables. Index. $125.00. Cloth. (2014) (0)
The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery. Vol. I: A-K. (1999) (0)
Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Precolonial Western Africa ed. by Toby Green (review) (2014) (0)
Warfare, slave trading and European influence: Atlantic Africa 1450–1800 (2020) (0)
Notes and Documents The African Experience of the "20. and Odd Negroes" Arriving in Virginia in i6i9 (2016) (0)
Enslaving Connections: Changing Culture of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery (2007) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: The War for Peace (1998) (0)
Bossuet and Hegel as readers of Polybius: reflections on the historiography of modernity and the end of Fortuna (2022) (0)
The Christian Church and Slavery (1996) (0)
Polybius and Roman Imperialism, by Donald W. Baronowski (2013) (0)
Kongo and Angola, Christianity in (2021) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: The Rival Kings (1998) (0)
War on the Savannah: West Central Africa (2000) (0)
No testing allowed (2011) (0)
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World. By James H. Sweet. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. xvii, 300. Maps. Illustrations. (2012) (0)
Demography, Production, and Labor (2021) (0)
Jamaican Place Names (review) (2010) (0)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: The Formation of the Atlantic World, 1250–1600 (2012) (0)
Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom (2006) (0)
Diasporic Africa: A Reader (2007) (0)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: Conquest (2012) (0)
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (review) (2012) (0)
Introduction: African War and World History (2000) (0)
New Light on the “Jaga” Episode in the History of Kongo (1567-1608) (2022) (0)
The Historian and the Precolonial African Economy: John Thornton Responds (1990) (0)
Revising the Population History of the Kingdom of Kongo (2021) (0)
Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800: Africans in colonial Atlantic societies (1998) (0)
DICTIONARIES AND KONGO HISTORY Langues, culture et histoire Koongo aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, à travers les documents linguistiques. Par JEAN DE DIEU NSONDÉ. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995. Pp. 249. FF140, paperback (ISBN 2-7384-3953-5). (1997) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: A Land in Turmoil (1998) (0)
Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions (2018) (0)
Oratory in Polybius’ Histories (2013) (0)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: Contact (2012) (0)
D.W. Baronowski, Polybius and Roman Imperialism (2013) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO PRECOLONIAL WAR AND VIOLENCE Guerra e violenza in Africa occidentale. Edited by FABIO VITI. Milan: Franco Angeli, 2004. Pp. 302. €25, paperback (ISBN 88-464-5779-X). (2006) (0)
Volavka, Zdenka. -- Crown and Ritual : The Royal Insignia of Ngoyo. Edited by Wendy A. Thomas, Introduction and conclusion by Colleen E. Kriger. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1998, 411 p., illustrations. (2000) (0)
Culmination: Lunda, Luba, and the Ovimbundu (2020) (0)
New World Encounters (1994) (0)
Out of One, Many Africas: Reconstructing the Study and Meaning of Africa (review) (2002) (0)
Evangelization of Western Africa (2021) (0)
Polybius and Empires (Philip V, Carthage, and Other paradeigmata) (2013) (0)
The State in African Historiography - eScholarship (1973) (0)
Book Reviews (2006) (0)
SYNTHESIS OF BENIN HISTORY A Popular History of Benin. By PETER M. ROESE and DMITRI M. BONDARENKO. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 391. £33/$55.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8204-6079-6). (2005) (0)
AFRICAN KINGS AND BLACK SLAVES IN THE EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC (2019) (0)
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820: Introduction (2012) (0)
Africans in the New World (1998) (0)
Rebecca Shumway, The Fante and the transatlantic slave trade (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 232. 15 figs. 4 tabs. ISBN 9781580463911 Hbk. £40/$85) (2013) (0)
CHURCH IN THE KINGDOM OF KONGO, I49I-1750' (2016) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Saint Anthony in Sin and Glory (1998) (0)
The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, written by Cécile Fromont (2015) (0)
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: The Saint and the Kings (1998) (0)
Cavalries of the Savannah (2000) (0)
La mission au Kongo : des pères Michelangelo Guattini & Dionigi Carli (1668) (2006) (0)
Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo (2019) (0)
Deraison, esclavage et droit: Les fondements ideologiques et juridiques de la traite negriere ed de l'esclavage (2003) (0)
The Precolonial State in West Africa: Building Power in Dahomey (2015) (0)

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