Sven Beckert

Sven Beckert (born 1965) is an American historian, and Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University.^[1]

He graduated from Columbia University 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.^[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]

Works

• The Monied Metropolis. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN 9780521524100. http://books.google.com/books?id=b4HUad4QMVMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Sven+Beckert&hl=en&ei=EUHMTbq3Bsro0QHd6a3eBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• 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)

References

External links

• "Beckert tracks cotton trail", Harvard Gazette,