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Robert W. Harms (born February 10, 1946) is an American historian and Henry J. Heinz Professor of History & African Studies at Yale University. He is a winner of the J. Russell Major Prize.

Books

• Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa, New York: Basic Books, 2019
• The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade, New York: Basic Books, 2002
• Games Against Nature: An EcoCultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987 (Second edition, 1999)
• River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981
• Paths Toward the Past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina, CoEditor with Joseph C. Miller, Michele D. Wagner, and David S. Newbury, Atlanta: African Studies Association Press, 1994

See also

• Jan Vansina

References

1. "Robert Harms CV" (PDF). Retrieved 4 November 2018.

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