David Northrup

David Northrup (born 1 May 1941) is emeritus professor of history at Boston College. He is the former president of the World History Association 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