James L.A. Webb, Jr. (Colby College, Waterville, Maine)

Submitted: Thurs, 21 August 2003


Professor James L.A. Webb, Jr.
Department of History
Colby College
5328 Mayflower Hill Drive
Waterville, Maine  04901-8853  USA

phone:   207-872-3279
fax:     207-872-3263
e-mail:  jlwebb@colby.edu



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

I am currently at work on a global history of quinine use and the 
origins of global public health.


Books published:

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).