l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor

Colby College, Waterville, Maine

jlwebb@colby.edu

Department of History
Colby College
5328 Mayflower Hill Drive
Waterville, Maine 04901-8853 USA

phone: 207-872-3279
fax: 207-872-3263

Currently at work on a global history of quinine use and the
origins of global public health.

Currently teach a general introduction to African history and chair the
interdisciplinary African Studies Program. Also teach courses in
comparative world history and in global environmental and ecological
history.

Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel,
1600-1850 (University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, WI, 1995)

Tropical Pioneers: Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of
Sri Lanka (Ohio University Press: Athens, OH, 2002 and Oxford University
Press: New Delhi, 2002).

quinine ; public health ; African history ; global environment ; ecological change ; Western Sahel.