Michael Craton

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Michael Craton is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Craton has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Cultural Studies, 36 papers in Anthropology and 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Michael Craton's work include Caribbean history, culture, and politics (44 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (33 papers) and Cuban History and Society (21 papers). Michael Craton is often cited by papers focused on Caribbean history, culture, and politics (44 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (33 papers) and Cuban History and Society (21 papers). Michael Craton collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Jamaica. Michael Craton's co-authors include Richard S. Dunn, Gad Heuman, Thomas C. Holt, Eugene D. Genovese, David Barry Gaspar, James Walvin, Herbert S. Klein, Franklin W. Knight, Orlando Patterson and Roger Anstey and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Journal of American History and The International Journal of African Historical Studies.

In The Last Decade

Michael Craton

57 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Sugar and Slaves: The Ris... 1973 2026 1990 2008 1973 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
    1973 243 citations Michael Craton, Richard S. Dunn profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Craton 922 765 695 193 123 62 1.6k
Franklin W. Knight 755 0.8× 960 1.3× 592 0.9× 182 0.9× 208 1.7× 101 1.9k
Irā Berlin 571 0.6× 714 0.9× 185 0.3× 122 0.6× 190 1.5× 71 1.3k
B. W. Higman 575 0.6× 459 0.6× 390 0.6× 151 0.8× 64 0.5× 66 1.1k
John K. Thornton 1.1k 1.2× 450 0.6× 190 0.3× 149 0.8× 142 1.2× 92 1.5k
Stuart B. Schwartz 925 1.0× 465 0.6× 214 0.3× 198 1.0× 187 1.5× 122 1.7k
David Eltis 1.3k 1.4× 714 0.9× 358 0.5× 502 2.6× 156 1.3× 111 2.0k
Marcus Rediker 553 0.6× 601 0.8× 179 0.3× 186 1.0× 195 1.6× 51 1.3k
Philip D. Morgan 554 0.6× 414 0.5× 182 0.3× 126 0.7× 108 0.9× 48 966
Hilary Beckles 359 0.4× 414 0.5× 322 0.5× 84 0.4× 69 0.6× 61 810
Richard Hellie 398 0.4× 707 0.9× 220 0.3× 141 0.7× 350 2.8× 44 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Craton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Craton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Craton

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Craton, Michael, et al.. (2000). From the ending of slavery to the twenty-first century. University of Georgia Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael, et al.. (1999). From aboriginal times to the end of slavery. University of Georgia Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael. (1997). Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Caribbean. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 18 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael. (1995). Response to Pieter C. Emmer’s ‘Reconsideration’. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 69(3-4). 291–297. 2 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael & Roderick A. McDonald. (1994). The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. Journal of the Early Republic. 14(4). 600–600. 13 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael. (1994). Reshuffling the pack : the transition from slavery to other forms of labor in the British Caribbean, ca. 1790-1890. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 68(1-2). 23–75. 13 indexed citations
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Keegan, William F., et al.. (1993). Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 73(4). 702–702. 8 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael. (1992). The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism. Hispanic American Historical Review. 72(1). 107–108. 2 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael. (1992). Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People: Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery. University of Georgia Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael, et al.. (1985). Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 65(3). 601–601. 143 indexed citations
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Dunn, Richard S. & Michael Craton. (1984). Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 15(1). 173–173. 1 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael. (1983). We shall not be moved: Pompey’s slave revolt in Exuma Island, Bahamas, 1830. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 57(1-2). 19–35. 4 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael & David Geggus. (1983). Slavery, War, and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue, 1793-1798. The William and Mary Quarterly. 40(2). 333–333. 7 indexed citations
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Eltis, David, et al.. (1979). Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica.. The Economic History Review. 32(3). 447–447. 3 indexed citations
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Engerman, Stanley L., Michael Craton, Jerome S. Handler, & Frederick W. Lange. (1978). Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica. The American Historical Review. 83(5). 1375–1375.
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Craton, Michael, et al.. (1976). Sinews of Empire: A Short History of British Slavery. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 9(4). 681–681. 37 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael, David Wright, & James Walvin. (1976). Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation: Black Slaves and the British Empire : A Thematic Documentary. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 8 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael & James Walvin. (1970). A Jamaican Plantation. University of Toronto Press eBooks. 32 indexed citations
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Craton, Michael. (1962). A history of the Bahamas. 47 indexed citations

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