Philip D. Curtin (May 22, 1922–June 4, 2009) was professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. He specialized in Africa and the Atlantic slave trade.

Bibliography

Two Jamaicas; the role of ideas in a tropical colony, 1830-1865. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955; Reprint with a new introduction by Franklin W. Knight. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998.

The image of Africa; British ideas and action, 1780-1850. Madison; University of Wisconsin Press, 1964.

African history. New York: Macmillan, 1964.

Africa remembered; narratives by West Africans from the era of the slave trade, edited by Philip D. Curtin. With introductions and annotation by Philip D. Curtin and others. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.

The Atlantic slave trade; a census, by Philip D. Curtin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.

Imperialism. Edited by Philip D. Curtin. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

Africa and Africans, by Paul Bohannan & Philip Curtin. Rev. ed. Garden City, N.Y., Published for the American Museum of Natural History, by Natural History Press, 1971; 4th ed. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1995.

Precolonial African history, by Philip D. Curtin. Washington: American Historical Association, 1974.

Economic change in precolonial Africa; Senegambia in the era of the slave trade, by Philip D. Curtin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975.

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, edited by Paul E. Lovejoy. Madison: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Distributed through agreement by the University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

Death by migration: Europe's encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth century, Philip D. Curtin. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

The rise and fall of the plantation complex: essays in Atlantic history, Philip D. Curtin. Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

The tropical Atlantic in the age of the slave trade, by Philip D. Curtin; with a foreword by Michael Adas, series editor. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1991.

Why people move: migration in African history, by Philip D. Curtin. Waco, Tex.: Markham Press Fund, 1995.

African history: from earliest times to independence, by Philip Curtin ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. London; New York: Longman, 1995.

Disease and empire: the health of European troops in the conquest of Africa, by Philip D. Curtin. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

The world and the West: the European challenge and the overseas response in the Age of Empire, Philip D. Curtin. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Migration and mortality in Africa and the Atlantic world, 1700-1900, Philip D. Curtin. Aldershot; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2001.

Discovering the Chesapeake: the history of an ecosystem, edited by Philip D. Curtin, Grace S. Brush, and George W. Fisher. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.