{{short description|American author, historian and academic}} {{EngvarB|date=December 2013}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox writer | name = John Edward Philips | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1952}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{hlist |Historian |Editor |}} | nationality = American | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | movement = | notableworks = {{hlist |''Black Africa's Largest Islamic Kingdom Before Colonialism: Royal Ribats Of Kano and Sokoto'' (2016)|''Writing African History'' (2005)|'' Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa: A Comparative Study (2000)'')}} | spouse = | children = | awards = | module = }}
'''John Edward Philips''' (born 1952) is an American historian. He is a retired Professor of International Society, Hirosaki University of Japan, with many works on African history. After taking his PhD in history at UCLA in 1992, he taught at several universities in Japan, especially Hirosaki University (1997-2018) and Akita Keizaihoka University (1988-1997). Since retiring in 2018, he has been an adjunct professor in several universities in Nigeria.
Regarding ''Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa: A Comparative Study'' (2000), reviewer Linda S. Northrup states: "This volume constitutes a rich resource for the study of slavery and slave elites....the research may extend well beyond the interests of historians, for the study of this phenomenon may have implications for understanding the roots of instability in the Islamic world today."<ref>Linda S. Northrup, "Review" ''Middle East Studies Association Bulletin'', Vol. 38, No. 1 (June 2004), pp. 106-107</ref>
His edited book ''Writing African History'' (2005), was named a ''Choice'' Outstanding Academic Title in 2006. Copies are held in over 600 academic libraries worldwide.<ref>See [http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no94021106/ World Cat]</ref> Reviewer Saheed Aderinto states:<blockquote>This book is to date the most multidisciplinary volume on African historiography....The editor adds value to the content of the essays with a brilliant introduction and conclusion, which explore the meaning of history and historical research. In the concluding chapter, he provides a step -to -step approach to the following closely related task: choosing a topic, data collection, data evaluation, data organization and writing.<ref>''Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria,'' Vol. 17 (2007/2008), pp. 201-203.</ref></blockquote>
==Publications== ===Author/editor=== * ''Black Africa's Largest Islamic Kingdom Before Colonialism: Royal Ribats Of Kano and Sokoto'' (2016) [https://www.amazon.com/africas-largest-islamic-kingdom-colonialism/dp/1945172525/ details] * “The Early Issues of the First Newspaper in Hausa Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo, 1939–1945.” ''History in Africa'', vol. 41, 2014, pp. 425–31. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/26362098 online] * editor, ''Writing African History'' (2005).<ref>Reviewer Saheed Aderinto states: "this book is to date the most multidisciplinary volume on African historiography....The editor adds value to the content the essays with a brilliant introduction and conclusion, which explore the meaning of history and historical research. In the concluding chapter, he provides a step -to -step approach to the following closely related task choosing a topic, data collection, data evaluation, data organization and writing." ''Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria,'' Vol. 17 (2007/2008), pp. 201-203.</ref><ref>Reviewer Thomas Spear states this book is "especially welcome." He concludes: "the central message of Writing African History, that need to become literate in the sources and disciplines they seek to use in able critically to evaluate them, is a crucial one." Thomas Spear, "Review: Methods and Sources for African History Revisited" ''Journal of African History'', Vol. 47, No. 2 (2006), pp. 305-319 at pp. 305, 319.</ref><ref>See also {{Cite journal |last=Aderinto |first=S. |title=Writing African History |date=2007 |journal=Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria |volume=17 |pages=201–203 |jstor=41857156 |access-date=January 9, 2021 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41857156}}.</ref><ref>For a long review from H-AFRICA see [https://networks.h-net.org/node/28765/reviews/32851/brizuela-garcia-philips-writing-african-history online]</ref> * “Hausa in the Twentieth Century: An Overview.” ''Sudanic Africa'', vol. 15, (2004), pp. 55–84. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25653413 online]. * ''Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria'' (2000)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x40z_EdDQCcC |last=Philips |first=J. E. |publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison |date=2000 |location=Madison|isbn = 9780942615456|access-date=January 9, 2020}}</ref> * ''Domestic Aliens: The Zangon Kataf Crisis and the African Concept of Stranger. London'' (2000)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ROEdmKAAAAAJ&hl=en#d=gs_md_cita-d&u=%2Fcitations%3Fview_op%3Dview_citation%26hl%3Den%26user%3DROEdmKAAAAAJ%26cstart%3D20%26pagesize%3D80%26citation_for_view%3DROEdmKAAAAAJ%3AroLk4NBRz8UC%26tzom%3D-60 |title=Domestic Aliens: The Zangon Kataf Crisis and the African Concept of Stranger |location=London |last=Philips |first=J. E. |date=2000 |publisher=International Research Group for Trans-regional & Emerging Areas studies |access-date=January 9, 2021}}</ref> * coeditor, ''Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa: A Comparative Study,'' edited with Miura Toru (Kegan Paul International. 2000) * “African Studies in Japan.” ''African Studies Review,'' vol. 40, no. 3, 1997, pp. 161–80. [https://doi.org/10.2307/524970 online] * “Some Recent Thinking on Slavery in Islamic Africa and the Middle East.” ''Middle East Studies Association Bulletin,'' vol. 27, no. 2, 1993, pp. 157–62. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/23061313 online] * "The African heritage of white America" (1990)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Philips |first=J. E. |title=The African heritage of white America |journal=Africanisms in American Culture |pages=225–39 |date=1990 |publisher=Indiana University Press |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=6097600532629646370&hl=en&oi=scholarr |access-date=January 9, 2021}}</ref><ref>See Cites at [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-African-Heritage-of-White-America-Phillips/7c2cfa5b3b825f8b4d95b32569a4bb1cc7716608 online]</ref> * “African Smoking and Pipes.” The Journal of African History, vol. 24, no. 3, 1983, pp. 303–19. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/181897 online]
===Selected reviews=== * “Kindred concerns and an abortive alliance.” ''Journal of African History,'' vol. 53, no. 3, 2012, pp. 419–21. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/23353690 online]. * "Telling Stories", ''American Historical Review,'' vol. 113, no. 2, 2008, pp. 620–620. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/30223038 online] * "Concubines and Power," ''Africa: Journal of the International African Institute,'' Vol. 76, No. 3 (2006), pp. 450–451 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/40022754 online] * "The Trouble with Nigeria" ''African Studies Review,'' Vol. 48, No. 2 (Sep., 2005), pp. 133–139. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/20065099 online] * "Handlists of Islamic Manuscripts: Nigeria" ''British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies,'' Vol. 23, No. 2 (Nov., 1996), pp. 243–245. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/195556 online] * "View of Islam: A Multi-Media Tour, (CD-ROM)" ''Middle East Studies Association Bulletin,'' Vol. 30, No. 1 (July 1996), pp. 125–126 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/23061640 online]
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==External links== * [https://hirosaki-u.academia.edu/JohnPhilipsHirosaki John Philips papers] online from Hirosaki Academia * [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ROEdmKAAAAAJ&hl=en John Edward Philips] on Google Scholar * [http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no94021106/ Philips, John Edward 1952–] on WorldCat
{{DEFAULTSORT:Philips, John Edward}} Category:21st-century American historians Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:American expatriate academics Category:American male non-fiction writers Category:Academic staff of Hirosaki University Category:20th-century American historians