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According to Wikipedia, Philip Dearmond Curtin was a Professor Emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and historian on Africa and the Atlantic slave trade. His most famous work, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census was one of the first estimates of the number of slaves transported across the Atlantic Ocean between the 16th century and 1870, yielding an estimate of 9,566,000 African slaves imported to the Americas. He also wrote about how many Africans were taken and from what location, how many died during the Middle Passage, how many actually arrived in the Americas, and to what colonies/countries they were imported. Deirdre McCloskey has described Curtin as the "doyen of African economic historians."

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The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. (1972) (876)
Cross-cultural trade in world history (1986) (718)
The Image of Africa (1964) (361)
Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India (1995) (245)
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (1990) (206)
Economic Change in Precolonial Africa; Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade (1975) (192)
Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (1977) (190)
Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century (1990) (173)
The Dark Continent: Review@@@The Image of Africa: British Ideas and Action, 1780-1850 (1964) (149)
The Atlantic slave trade (1969) (132)
Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa (1999) (131)
Medical knowledge and urban planning in tropical Africa. (1985) (116)
African History: From Earliest Times to Independence (1995) (99)
“The White Man's Grave:” Image and Reality, 1780-1850 (1961) (99)
Jihad in West Africa: early phases and inter-relations in Mauritania and Senegal (1971) (90)
Two Jamaicas: The Role of Ideas in a Tropical Colony, 1830-1865 (1955) (84)
The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire (2000) (80)
Africa Remembered. Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade (1967) (77)
The slavery hypothesis for hypertension among African Americans: the historical evidence. (1992) (76)
Pandemic influenza, 1700-1900 : a study in historical epidemiology (1986) (53)
Sources of the Nineteenth Century Atlantic Slave Trade (1964) (53)
Discovering the Chesapeake: The History of an Ecosystem (2001) (50)
Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960 (1977) (50)
The End of the 'White Man's Grave'? Nineteenth-Century Mortality in West Africa (1990) (49)
The Right to Rule (1971) (38)
Measuring the Atlantic Slave Trade (1976) (26)
The British Sugar Duties and West Indian Prosperity (1954) (25)
The lure of Bambuk gold (1973) (25)
Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Supplementary Evidence (1975) (23)
The Black Experience of Colonialism and Imperialism (1974) (23)
Field Techniques for Collecting and Processing Oral Data (1968) (22)
The effects of the European Working Time Directive on surgical training: the basic surgical trainee’s perspective (2011) (22)
Africans In Bondage: Studies In Slavery And The Slave Trade: Essays In Honor Of Philip D. Curtin On The Occasion Of The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Of African Studies At The University Of Wisconsin (1986) (22)
The Archives of Tropical Africa: A Reconnaissance (1960) (18)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: Index (1984) (17)
Location in History: Argentina and South Africa in the Nineteenth Century (2005) (16)
Disease exchange across the tropical Atlantic. (1993) (16)
African Studies: A Personal Assessment (1971) (14)
Ghettoizing African History (1995) (14)
African Enterprise in the Mangrove Trade: The case of Lamu (1981) (12)
A Tentative Chronology of Futa Toro from the Sixteenth through the Nineteenth Centuries (1972) (12)
SLAVERY AND EMPIRE (1977) (11)
'Scientific' Racism and the British Theory of Empire (1960) (11)
Nutrition in African history. (1983) (11)
The “Civilizing Mission” (1971) (10)
Economic Change in Pre-Colonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade. 2 vols (1976) (10)
African Health at Home and Abroad (1986) (10)
DEPTH, SPAN, AND RELEVANCE (1984) (10)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Contents (1998) (9)
Disease and imperialism. (1996) (9)
The penetration of Africa : European exploration in North and West Africa to 1815 (1966) (8)
Africa and Global Patterns of Migration (2018) (8)
The tropical Atlantic in the age of the slave trade (1991) (8)
Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 (2001) (8)
The World and the West (2000) (7)
Disease and empire (1998) (7)
The United States in the Caribbean (1955) (7)
The British Empire and Commonwealth in Recent Historiography (1959) (7)
Discovering the Chesapeake (2001) (6)
African Studies in Africa and the American Scholar (1966) (6)
Precolonial African History (1975) (5)
Malarial immunities in nineteenth-century west Africa and the Caribbean. (1994) (5)
African Economic History: What is it? (1987) (5)
The Uses of Oral Tradition in Senegambia : Maalik Sii and the Foundation of Bundu. (1975) (5)
Oral Traditions and African History (1969) (5)
Free Jamaica 1838-1865 (2001) (4)
Migration in the Tropical World (1991) (4)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man in Saint-Domingue, 1788-1791 (1950) (4)
The Africans’ “Place in Nature” (1964) (3)
The Promise and The Terror of a Tropical Environment (1964) (3)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: Trade diasporas and cross-cultural trade (1984) (3)
Graduate Teaching in World History. (1991) (3)
Eric R. Wolf. Europe and the People without History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1982. Pp. xi, 503. Cloth $29.95, paper $8.95 (1984) (2)
The Politics of Imperialism (2000) (2)
Third Conference on African History and Archaeology (1961) (2)
The Backbone of History: Overspecialization and Remedies (2002) (2)
Varieties of Nationalism in Europe and Africa: Nationalism in Africa, 1945–1965 (1966) (2)
Pre-colonial trading networks and traders: the Diakhanké (2018) (2)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: Bugis, banians, and Chinese: Asian traders in the era of the great companies (1984) (2)
The Gold Coast: Five Years After (1956) (2)
Cross-Cultural Trade in World Industry. (1985) (2)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: The North American fur trade (1984) (2)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: The twilight of the trade diasporas (1984) (1)
On the Fringes of History: A Memoir (2005) (1)
Comment: African Art and African History (1962) (1)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: A new trade axis: the Mediterranean to China, circa 200 B.C. – A.D. 1000 (1984) (1)
The Problem of Survival (1964) (1)
Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade@@@Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Supplementary Evidence@@@Precolonial Africa: An Economic and Social History (1977) (1)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: Asian trade in Eastern seas, 1000–1500 (1984) (1)
The “Scientific” Roots: Nineteenth-Century Racism (1971) (1)
Death by Migration: Killing Diseases of the Tropical World (1989) (1)
International Congress of Africanists (1971) (1)
The African Diaspora (1979) (1)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: Ancient trade (1984) (1)
The World and the West: Conquest (2000) (0)
African Affairs No. 1 (St Antony's Papers, no. 10). Edited by Kenneth Kirk-Wood. London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. Pp. 164. 18s. (1961) (0)
COMMENTARY (1977) (0)
The British Commonwealth. Frank H. UnderhillRichard Jebb and the Problem of Empire. J. D. B. Miller (1957) (0)
West Africa: The Known and The Unknown (1964) (0)
The human achievement : culture area approach to world history (1970) (0)
Notes and Letters (1968) (0)
Relocation Costs in the Late Nineteenth Century (1989) (0)
The Rise and Fall of Western Colonialism. By Stewart C. Easton. (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1964. Pp. ix, 402. $7.50 Cloth, $2.95 paper.) (1964) (0)
The Exercise of Imperium (1971) (0)
Black Slavery in Perspective?@@@The Rise and Fall of Black Slavery. (1976) (0)
Tropical Medicine and the Victory of Empiricism (1964) (0)
Sierra Leone: The Lessons of Experience (1964) (0)
Book Review:Smuts: The Sanguine Years, 1870-1919 W. K. Hancock (1963) (0)
Reviews of Philip D. Curtin, The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire (2001) (0)
The World and the West: Paths to Viable Independence: Ghana (2000) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: The slave trade and the West African economy in the eighteenth century (1998) (0)
T H E ARCHIVES OF TROPICAL AFRICA: (2008) (0)
The Racists and their Opponents (1964) (0)
New books received (1990) (0)
West Africa in the South Atlantic Economy (1964) (0)
The Unification of South Africa, 1902-1910 (1959) (0)
The History of Upper Guinea (1970) (0)
Revolution in the French Antilles (1998) (0)
Towns and Elephants (1964) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: The Mediterranean origins (1998) (0)
Sanitation and Tropical Hygiene at Midcentury (1989) (0)
Oral History Interview: Philip D. Curtin (0028) (1975) (0)
T. Bentley Duncan. Atlantic Islands: Madeira, the Azores, and the Cape Verdes in Seventeenth-Century Commerce and Navigation. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1972. xv+291 pp. $10. (1974) (0)
African Views of the West (1976) (0)
David Arnold, Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth century India , Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1993, pp. xii, 354, $45.00 (hardback 0-520-08124-2), $18.00 (paperback 0-520-08295-8). (1995) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Anarchy and imperial control (1998) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Retrospect (1998) (0)
Nationalism Emergent (1960) (0)
The World and the West: Afterword (2000) (0)
The White Conscience. By Frank H. Tucker. (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. 1968. Pp. x, 353. $7.50.) (1969) (0)
Death by Migration: Bibliography (1989) (0)
Anglo-Saxons and the Tar Brush (1971) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Atlantic commerce in the eighteenth century (1998) (0)
The Population of Jamaica@@@Jamaica and the New Order, 1827-1847 (1957) (0)
The British West Indies. By W. L. Burn. London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1951. Pp. 196 (1956) (0)
Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Vol. 1 Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade. Vol. 2, Supplementary Evidence. (1976) (0)
The Pattern of Empire (2000) (0)
The Era of the Niger Expedition (1964) (0)
The World and the West: Administrative Choices and Their Consequences: Examples from Bengal, Central Asia, Java, and Malaya (2000) (0)
The World and the West: Varieties of Defensive Modernization (2000) (0)
The Theory and Practice of Informal Empire (1964) (0)
Barbarism: Its Physical Causes (1964) (0)
The World and the West: Culture Change and Imperial Rule (2000) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Capitalism, feudalism, and sugar planting in Brazil (1998) (0)
Book Review:The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760 K. N. Chaudhuri (1980) (0)
An Economic History of Tropical Africa. 2 vols. Edited by Z. A. and J. M. Konczacki. London: Frank Cass, 1977. Pp. xv, 260; xii, 310. $49.00 (1978) (0)
Death by Migration: Conclusion (1989) (0)
Culture Contact and Conversion (1964) (0)
174CIVIL WAR HISTORY (1969) (0)
174CIVIL WAR HISTORY (1969) (0)
The World and the West: Culture Change in Mexico (2000) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: The sugar revolution and the settlement of the Caribbean (1998) (0)
The European entry into the trade of maritime Asia (1984) (0)
Language, Culture, and History (1964) (0)
The World and the West: Preface (2000) (0)
The World and the West: Christian Missions in East Africa (2000) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Bureaucrats and free lances in Spanish America (1998) (0)
The World and the West: Non-European Resistance and the European Withdrawal (2000) (0)
Death by Migration: The Pursuit of Disease, 1870–1914 (1989) (0)
The Gold Coast (1956) (0)
ASA Committees Report on Activities (1969) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: The end of slavery in the Americas (1998) (0)
West Africa. By W. B. Morgan and J. C. Pugh. London: Methuen & Co., 1969. Pp. xxviii, 788. £ 6 (1969) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Preface to first edition (1998) (0)
Personal and Utopian Responses (2000) (0)
The World and the West: A Roundtable Response (2001) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: The Democratic Revolution in the Atlantic basin (1998) (0)
Techniques for Culture Change (1964) (0)
Death by Migration: The Mortality Revolution and the Tropical World: Relocation Costs in the Early Nineteenth Century (1989) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Africa and the slave trade (1998) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Readjustments in the nineteenth century (1998) (0)
Book reviews (1975) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Slave societies on the periphery (1998) (0)
Economic Change in Precolonial Africa. Volume 1, Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade; volume 2, Supplementary Evidence (1976) (0)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: Africa: traders and trade communities (1984) (0)
Sugar Duties and West Indian Prosperity 161 (2010) (0)
The End of the (1990) (0)
Journal d'un voiage fait en Bambouc en 1744. By Pierre David. Edited, introduced and annotated by André Delcourt. Paris: Société française d'histoire d'outremer, 1974. Pp. 303. No price on book. (1976) (0)
India and Southeast Asia (1970) (0)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: Overland trade of the seventeenth century: Armenian carriers between Europe and East Asia (1984) (0)
Imperialism and the Law of Nations (1971) (0)
An Economic History of Africa from the Earliest Times to Partition. By Peter Wickins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 323. $29.95 (1983) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Sugar planting: from Cyprus to the Atlantic islands (1998) (0)
Africa and the International Economy, 1800–1960: An Introduction to the Modern Economic History of Africa South of the Sahara. By J. Forbes Munro. London: J. M. Dent Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1976. Pp. 230. $12.00 cloth, $5.75 paper (1977) (0)
Class Acts II: Texts and Contexts for African History (2001) (0)
What Is an Attainable Global Perspective for Undergraduates in History (1985) (0)
The Unification of South Africa, 1902–1910 by L. M. Thompson (review) (2016) (0)
Cross-cultural trade in world history: Africa: incentives to trade, patterns of competition (1984) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Preface (1998) (0)
The Application of Pseudoscientific Racism (1971) (0)
Culture Change in Plural Societies: South Africa and Central Asia (2000) (0)
West Africa in the New Century: a Pattern of Discovery (1964) (0)
The Search for Viable Independence: Indonesia (2000) (0)
The World and the West: Meiji Japan: Revolutionary Modernization (2000) (0)
Africa in World History: A Teaching Conference Held in Colorado Springs, Colorado on 25-26 April 1986. (1987) (0)
The World and the West: Independence and the Liquidation of Empires (2000) (0)
The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa. By Anne Phillips. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp. vii. 184. $29.95 (1990) (0)
The World and the West: Ottoman Reactions to the West (2000) (0)
William B. Cohen. The French Encounter with Africans: White Response to Blacks, 1530–1880. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1980. Pp. xix, 360. $22.50 (1981) (0)
Editorial (2010) (0)
Death by Migration: Preface (1989) (0)
Death by Migration: The Revolution in Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1989) (0)
Reporting West Africa: Sources and Uses of Information (1964) (0)
Technology and Power (2000) (0)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: Appendix (1998) (0)
Barbarism: Its Moral Causes (1964) (0)

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