Johns Hopkins UniversityEst. 1876

America’s First Research University

Meet Sven Beckert

Sven Beckert is the Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University and the author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History.

Published Works

Plantation Kingdom
The American South and Its Global Commodities

Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, and Barbara Hahn

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