John K. Thornton

4.7k citations
92 papers · 1.5k indexed · h-index 20
Topics
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (57 papers)African history and culture studies (30 papers)Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (30 papers)

In The Last Decade

John K. Thornton

83 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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John K. Thornton
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  • Anthropology 1.1k
  • Sociology and Political Science 450
  • Cultural Studies 190
  • Religious studies 182
  • Economics and Econometrics 149
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All Works

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Strepitus imperitorum: i suoni delle assemblee, fra alterità etnica e sociale
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Città greche tra conservazione e modelli rivoluzionari. Megalopoli, Larisa e i re macedoni nel III secolo a.C.
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The Precolonial State in West Africa: Building Power in Dahomey
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Simon Kimbangu. 1921: De la Prédication À la Deportation. Les Sources
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The role of Africans in the Atlantic economy, 1450-1650: modern Africanist historiography and the world-systems paradigm
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The Chronicle as Source, History and Hagiography: The Catalogo dos Governadores de Angola
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The Correspondence of the Kongo Kings, 1614-35: Problems of Internal Written Evidence on a Central African Kingdom
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About John K. Thornton

John K. Thornton is a scholar working on Anthropology, Religious studies and Cultural Studies, having authored 92 papers that have together received 1.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Colonialism, slavery, and trade (57 papers), African history and culture studies (30 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (30 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anthropology (1.1k citations), Archeology (55 citations) and Religious studies (182 citations). John K. Thornton has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Zambia. Frequent co-authors include James L. A. Webb, John Webster, Robin Law, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Eltis, Robert Harms, Herbert S. Klein, David J. Richardson, Phyllis M. Martin and John Lamphear. Their work appears in journals such as The American Historical Review, Journal of American History and The International Journal of African Historical Studies.

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