David Northrup (born 1 May 1941) is
emeritus professor
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of history at
Boston College
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. He is the former president of the
World History Association
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and in 2017 received their Pioneers in World History Award.
Selected publications
* ''Seven Myths of Africa in World History''. Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2017
* ''Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850''. New York : Oxford UP, 2014.
* ''How English Became the Global Language''. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
* ''Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965: A Brief History with Documents''. New York : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010.
*
Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922' New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995
* ''The Atlantic Slave Trade''. Lexington: Heath, 1994. (2002, 2001) (Editor)
*
Beyond the Bend in the River: African Labor in Eastern Zaire, 1865-1940'. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1988.
* ''Trade Without Rulers: Pre-Colonial Economic Development in South-Eastern Nigeria''. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1978
References
External links
*http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/2.1/northrup.html
Living people
1941 births
Boston College faculty
American historians
Historians of slavery
Historians of Africa
Presidents of the World History Association
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