Sven Beckert is an American historian

Historian

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, and Laird Bell Professor of American History

History of the United States

The history of the United States traditionally starts with the Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, although its territory was inhabited by Native Americans since prehistoric times and then by European colonists who followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. The...

 at Harvard University

Harvard University

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He graduated from Columbia University

Columbia University

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 with an M.A. in History in 1989, and with a PhD in History in 1995.
He was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow.
He was a Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow.
He was a New York Public Library

New York Public Library

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 Fellow.
He is a Guggenheim Fellow.

Works

• The American Bourgeoisie, co-edited with Julia Rosenbaum, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, ISBN 9780230102941

• "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)

External links

• "Beckert tracks cotton trail", Harvard Gazette,