Curtin's statement, stating that he was guilty of "stealing their history". Books: Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade (editor, 1967) The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (1969) The Image of Africa: British Ideas and Action, 1780–1850 (1973, AHA Schuyler Prize) Africa and the West: Intellectual Responses to European Culture (1974) Precolonial African History (1975, AHA pamphlet) Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade (1975) African History (co-author, 1978) Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (1984) Death by Migration: Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century (1989) The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (1990) The Tropical Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade (1991, AHA pamphlet) Why People Move: Migration in African History (1995) Disease and Empire (1998) Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 (2001) The World and the West (2002) On the Fringes of History: A Memoir (2005) Doctoral Supervision (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Doctoral Supervision (Johns Hopkins University): Awards and honors Curtin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995. Personal A resident of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Curtin died at age 87 on June 4, 2009, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with pneumonia cited as the cause of death. He was survived by his third wife, the former Anne Gilbert, as well as three sons and three grandchildren. His marriages to opera soprano singer Phyllis Curtin and Patricia Romero both ended in divorce. References External links Philip Curtin - Daily Telegraph obituary - New York Times - Washington Post - JHU Gazette - H-NET 1922 births 2009 deaths Swarthmore College alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers United States Merchant Mariners of World War II Deaths from pneumonia in Pennsylvania Johns Hopkins University faculty MacArthur Fellows People from Chester County, Pennsylvania Writers from Philadelphia People from Webster Springs, West Virginia Presidents of the American Historical Association Swarthmore College faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Historians from Pennsylvania Historians of Africa American Africanists American male non-fiction writers Members of the American Philosophical Society Presidents of the African Studies Association