Books written by John K. Thornton

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  Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800

  The remarkable use of a firing drill of the Surinam maroons described for John Gabriel Stedman in 1775 by his slave Hanibal was supposed to be the way that “Negroe Engaged Against Negroe”. In it both parties were divided into small ...

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  Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660

  This book shows that the first generation of Africans taken to English and Dutch colonies before 1660 were captured by pirates from these countries from slave ships coming from Kongo and Angola.

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  A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820

  An overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830, describing interactions between the inhabitants of Africa, Europe and North and South America.

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  A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820

  This book uses close readings of original sources to produce new interpretations of its subject.

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  A History of West Central Africa to 1850

  An accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region.

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  Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660

  This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660.

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  A History of West Central Africa to 1850

  By contextualising and expanding its range, to include treatment of the Portuguese colony of Angola, John K. Thornton provides new understandings of significant events, people, and inter-regional interactions which aid the grounding of the ...