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Curtin</b></font><p><img src="philip-d-curtin-1-sized.jpg" height=335 width=245 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Philip D. Curtin"><b>AKA</b> Philip De Armind Curtin<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/660/000106342/" class=proflink>22-May</a>-<a href="/lists/921/000105606/" class=proflink>1922</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/659/000069452/" class=proflink>Philadelphia, PA</a><br><b>Died:</b> <a href="/lists/042/000106721/" class=proflink>4-Jun</a>-<a href="/lists/276/000179736/" class=proflink>2009</a><br><b>Location of death:</b> <a href="/geo/096/000079856/" class=proflink>West Chester, PA</a> <font size=-1><a href="#FN1">[1]</a></font><br><b>Cause of death:</b> <a href="/lists/323/000069116/" class=proflink>Pneumonia</a><br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/197/000068990/" class=proflink>Historian</a><p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> <i>The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census</i><p><b>Military service:</b> US Merchant Marine (WWII)<p><hr width=25% size=1 align=left><a name="FN1"><font size=-1>[1] Chester County Hospital, West Chester, PA. </font><p><b>Wife:</b> Phyllis Curtin (div.)<br><b>Wife:</b> Patricia Romero (div.)<br><b>Wife:</b> Anne Gilbert (three sons, until his death)<br><b>Son:</b> Charles<br><b>Son:</b> Christopher<br><b>Son:</b> Steven<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/719/000068515/">BA, Swarthmore College (1948)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/473/000068269/">MA, Harvard University (1949)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/473/000068269/">PhD, Harvard University (1953)</a><br> Teacher: <a href="/edu/719/000068515/">Swarthmore College (1953-56)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/477/000082231/">University of Wisconsin-Madison (1956-75)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/633/000068429/">Johns Hopkins University (1975-2009)</a><br><p> <a href="/honors/321/000044189/">MacArthur Fellowship</a> 1983<br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>The Image of Africa: British Ideas and Action, 1780-1850</i> (<tt>1964</tt>, history)<br><i>The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census</i> (<tt>1969</tt>, history)<br><i>Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade</i> (<tt>1975</tt>, history)<br><i>African History</i> (<tt>1978</tt>, history)<br><i>Cross-Cultural Trade in World History</i> (<tt>1984</tt>, history)<br><i>Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century</i> (<tt>1989</tt>, history)<br><i>The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History</i> (<tt>1990</tt>, history)<br><i>Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa</i> (<tt>1998</tt>, history)<br><i>The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire</i> (<tt>2000</tt>, history)<br><i>Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World, 1700-1900</i> (<tt>2001</tt>, history)<br><i>On the Fringes of History: A Memoir</i> (<tt>2005</tt>, memoir)<br><p> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=366790" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>