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]

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.^[2] He was a Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow.^[3] He was a New York Public Library Fellow.^[4] He is a Guggenheim Fellow.^[5] 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.^[6] The New York Times called it "one of the ten best books of 2015."

Works

• The Monied Metropolis. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-521-52410-0.
• Rosenbaum, Julia B.; Beckert, Sven (19 January 2011). The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-0-230-31454-2.
• "From Tuskegee to Togo", Journal of American History, September, 2005
• "Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War", American Historical Review, Issue 109 (Dec 2004), pp. 1405–1438. (2004)
• "Democracy and its Discontents: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York", Past and Present (February 2002), pp. 114–155 (2002)
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2 December 2014. ISBN 978-0-385-35325-0.

References

1. History of American Civilization Department Profile Archived October 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
2. ACLS profile: Sven Beckert F'08
3. Archived July 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
4. https://web.archive.org/20110727084955/http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/pastfellows.html. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
5. Archived October 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
6. "The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners History". pulitzer.org. Retrieved May 16, 2015.

External links

• "Beckert tracks cotton trail", Harvard Gazette,