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• W311664218 abstract "22 MAY 1922 * 4 JUNE 2009PHILIP D. CURTIN, who died at West Chester, Pennsylvania, on 4 June 2009, is widely considered to be one of pre-eminent historians of second half of twentieth century.1 His contributions to British and European imperial history, economic history, history of medicine, and African history have been remarkable, yet his foremost legacy to profession is method of cross-cultural comparative history. This is a method for cross-cultural historical comparisons: historical because it deals with change in human societies over very long run of time, and to stress that method avoids a Western ethnocentric outlook and not because its application requires coverage of whole world. Indeed it does not, as for Curtin history is a study of record of human condition in general.2Born in Philadelphia on 22 May 1922, he grew up in rural West Virginia, where he acquired three hobbies that left an imprint on all his later life and work: photography, a thirst for foreign travel, first acquired in Latin America, and a predilection for sailing and water sports. He started college at Swarthmore a few months before Pearl Harbor and, as a conscientious objector, began civilian service as a radio officer in U.S. Merchant Marine. In that capacity he traveled to many parts of world, so that when he arrived at Harvard in 1948 he was a well-read older graduate student with considerable worldwide experience and a person who chose his own path.He specialized in history of Great Britain and British Empire, and proceeded to study history of nineteenth-century Jamaica for his doctorate, a study later published as Two Jamaicas (Cambridge, Mass., 1955; reprinted 1998). To start his research he traveled first to Jamaica to immerse himself in archives and in local environment, rather than to London and its imperial archives, as was consecrated procedure. His justification was that history of a colony should be approached first from bottom up rather than from top down, an argument that was both novel and so iconoclastic at time that even a score of years later not a few historians of any empire continued to remain bitterly opposed to such behavior.Doctorate in hand, he returned to Swarthmore in 1953 to teach European history, British history, and history of British Empire, plus one new course. At that time standard fare of most departments of history consisted only of this along with American history. They simply ignored the rest, that is, most of world. This, he felt, would never do. Indeed, by then he had long been aware that European powers had come to dominate large parts of over last five centuries and that this was a form of history. So his new course dealt with interaction between Europe after 1450 and rest and was called The Expansion of Europe.In fall of 1956 Curtin joined University of Wisconsin and started on most creative period of his life. There he found a kindred spirit in Fred Harvey Harrington, a fellow historian who was then vice president of university and became its president in 1962. By 1959 Fred was striving to create a set of area programs at university in order to counter prevailing dismissal of most of by its schools and departments. His backing allowed Curtin to realize his dream of expanding teaching of history almost immediately. In 1956 he and a lone East Asianist had been only ones charged with teaching anything beyond history of United States and Europe, yet only a decade later Curtin's institution-building had resulted in history programs staffed by one or more faculty each in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. By 1970 almost one of faculty of department were third world historians, and most of their programs were also lodged within independent area studies programs that had sprung up elsewhere at university. …" @default.
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