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Sven Beckert
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Gender | Male |
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Born | Frankfurt |
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Job | Professor |
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Historian | |
Books | Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities |
Empire of Cotton: A Global History | |
History of American Capitalism | |
The monied metropolis | |
Official site | svenbeckert.com |
Nominations | Pulitzer Prize for History |
Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia University |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada |
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ID | 442775 |
Sven Beckert Life story
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. With Christine A. Desan, he is the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University.