Martin A. Klein Explained

Martin A. Klein (born 1934 in suburban New York City) is an Africanist and an emeritus professor in the History Department at the University of Toronto specialising in the Atlantic slave trade, and francophone West Africa: Senegal, Guinea, and Mali.^{[1] [2]} He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism at Northwestern University (1951-1955) and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in history at the University of Chicago (1957-1964). Klein worked as an assistant professor at the University of California Berkeley from 1965 till 1970, later teaching African history at the University of Toronto as an associate professor and later full professor from 1970 until his retirement in 1999.^{[3] [4]} As a Fulbright Fellow, Klein taught for a year at Lovanium University in Kinshasa.

He was a president of the African Studies Association (US, 1991-1997) and of the Canadian Association of African Studies. In 2001, Klein received a Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association.^[5] In 2010, the American Historical Association awarded the first annual Martin A. Klein Prize instituted in his name for the most distinguished work of scholarship on African history published in English during the previous calendar year.^{[6] [7]}

Publications

Klein published many scholarly articles, books and book chapters, including:^{[8] [9]}

• Islam and imperialism in Senegal; Sine-Saloum, 1847-1914, Stanford University Press for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford, California, 1968.
• 'Slavery, the slave trade, and legitimate commerce in late nineteenth-century Africa', Cahiers d'Études africaines, 2 (1971), 5-28, Louvain.^[10]
• 'Social and Economic Factors in the Muslim Revolution in Senegambia', The Journal of African History, 13 (1972) 419 - 441.
• with Claire C. Robertson, Women and Slavery in Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1983.
• Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage and Emancipation in Modern Asia and Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1993.
• Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa, Cambridge University Press 1998. African Studies Book 94.
• Historical dictionary of slavery and abolition (The A to Z of slavery and abolition), Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2002.
• with Alice Bellagamba and Sandra E. Greene, The bitter legacy : African slavery past and present, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, 2013.
• 'Urban Slavery in West and West Central Africa during the Transatlantic Slave Trade', Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 10 (2020) 1-20.

External links

• . Video of a lecture by Klein. Uploaded by Science4Peace on 4 November 2015. Duration 1h:05m:01s.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Martin Klein. Professor Emeritus . 7 November 2019. history.utoronto.ca . University of Toronto. Faculty of Arts & Science. Department of History . 16 November 2022 .
2. Miller . Joseph C. . Breaking the Historiographical Chains: Martin Klein and Slavery . Canadian Journal of African Studies . 2000 . 34 . 3 . 512–531 . 10.2307/486210 . 486210 . 16 November 2022. With a bibliography of Klein's works.
3. Web site: Martin Klein University of Toronto, History, Emeritus . utoronto.academia.edu . Academia.edu . 16 November 2022 .
4. Web site: Martin Klein Professor emeritus at University of Toronto . Klein . Martin A. . linkedin.com . Linkedin . 16 November 2022 .
5. Web site: Distinguished Africanist Award Winners . 2022 . africanstudies.org . African Studies Association . 16 November 2022 .
6. Web site: Martin A. Klein Prize . 2022 . historians.org . American Historical Association . 16 November 2022 .
7. Web site: Martin A. Klein Prize Recipients . 2022 . historians.org . American Historical Association . 16 November 2022 .
8. Web site: Martin A. Klein . scholar.google.com . Google Scholar . 16 November 2022 .
9. Web site: Martin Klein University of Toronto Department of History, September 1970 - June 1999 Professor (Associate),74 publications . researchgate.net . 16 November 2022 .
10. Klein . Martin A. . 1971 . Slavery, the slave trade, and legitimate commerce in late nineteenth-century Africa . Cahiers d'Études africaines . 2 . 5–28 . 16 November 2022.