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Sven Beckert

Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University

Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University in Massachusetts. His books include Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014) and, co-edited with Seth Rockman, Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (2016), and he is currently finishing Capitalism: A Global History (forthcoming).

Written by Sven Beckert