Sven Beckert

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

He 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.

Works

• The Monied Metropolis. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-521-52410-0. 
• The American Bourgeoisie, co-edited with Julia Rosenbaum, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-10294-1

• "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 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014).

References

External links

• "Beckert tracks cotton trail", Harvard Gazette,