Sven Beckert
Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University, where he teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history.[1] With Christine A. Desan, he is the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University.[2]
He studied history, economics and political science at the University of Hamburg, Germany and then graduated from Columbia University with a PhD in History. He was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow.[3] He was a Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow.[4] He was a New York Public Library Fellow.[5] He is a Guggenheim Fellow.[6]
Works
He is the author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014), which won the 2015 Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History.[7] The New York Times called it "one of the ten best books of 2015."[8] Economic historian Peer Vries wrote that it was "a must read for every historian interested in global history, but in my view it is better as a story on cotton than as an analysis of capitalism."[9] Other economic historians have criticized the book.[10]
Books
- Beckert, Sven (2014). Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-35325-0.
- —— (2001). The Monied Metropolis. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52410-0.
Journal articles
- —— (2005). "From Tuskegee to Togo: The Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton". Journal of American History. 92 (2): 498–526. doi:10.2307/3659276. JSTOR 3659276.
- —— (2004). "Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War" (PDF). American Historical Review. 109 (5): 1405–1438. doi:10.1086/530931.
- —— (2002). "Democracy and its Discontents: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York". Past and Present. 174 (1): 114–155. doi:10.1093/past/174.1.116.
Edited volumes
- Rosenbaum, Julia B.; Beckert, Sven, eds. (2011). The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-31454-2.
- Beckert, Sven; Desan, Christine, eds. (2018). American Capitalism: New Histories. New York City: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231185240. OCLC 987660154.
References
- "History of American Civilization Department Profile". Archived from the original on October 19, 2007.
- "Christine A. Desan". Harvard Law School. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- "ACLS profile: Sven Beckert F'08".
- "Prof. Dr. Sven Beckert - Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies". Archived from the original on July 26, 2011.
- "Past Fellows: 1999-2008". Archived from the original on July 27, 2011.
- "Sven Beckert - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on October 8, 2011.
- "The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners History". pulitzer.org. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- "The 10 Best Books of 2015". The New York Times. 2015-12-03. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
- Vries, Peter (2017). "Cotton, Capitalism, and Coercion: Some Comments on Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton". Journal of World History. 28: 131–140. doi:10.1353/jwh.2017.0006. S2CID 148748204.
- Olmstead, Alan L.; Rhode, Paul W. (2018). "Cotton, slavery, and the new history of capitalism". Explorations in Economic History. 67: 1–17. doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2017.12.002.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- "Beckert tracks cotton trail", Harvard Gazette,
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