Peter Kolchin
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- PhD History Johns Hopkins University
- Masters History Johns Hopkins University
- Bachelors History University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Robert Kolchin is an American historian. He has specialized in slavery and labor in the American South before and after the Civil War, and in comparisons with Russian serfdom and other forms of labor. He won the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Avery O. Craven Award for his book Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom .
Peter Kolchin's Published Works
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- Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1989) (146)
- Whiteness Studies: The New History of Race in America (2002) (130)
- American slavery, 1619-1877 (1993) (96)
- Whiteness Studies I. The new history of race in America (2009) (71)
- A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective (2003) (28)
- Reevaluating the Antebellum Slave Community: A Comparative Perspective (1983) (26)
- Black Reconstruction Revisited@@@Black New Orleans, 1860-1880.@@@First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction. (1972) (24)
- Slavery in United States Survey Textbooks. (1998) (24)
- Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808. (1991) (17)
- Planters, merchants, and slaves: plantation societies in British America, 1650–1820 (2016) (14)
- COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORY (1982) (13)
- More Time on the Cross? An Evaluation of Robert William Fogel's Without Consent or Contract (1992) (13)
- In Defense of Servitude: American Proslavery and Russian Proserfdom Arguments, 1760-1860 (1980) (13)
- Bound with them in Chains: A Biographical History of the Antislavery Movement. By Pease Jane H. and Pease William H.. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1972. Pp. 334. $12.50.) (1976) (11)
- The World the Historians Made: Peter Wood's Black Majority in Historiographical Context (1999) (10)
- The South and the World (2009) (8)
- Some Recent Works on Slavery Outside the United States: An American Perspective. A Review Article (1986) (7)
- The Process of Confrontation: Patterns of Resistance to Bondage in Nineteenth-Century Russia and the United States (1978) (6)
- Reunion without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 1865–1868. By Michael Perman. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. 376 pp. Appendix, notes, note on sources, and index. Cloth, $17.50; paper, $5.95.) (1974) (6)
- Comparative History in Theory and Practice: A Discussion (1982) (6)
- The Big Picture: A Comment on David Brion Davis's "Looking at Slavery from Broader Perspectives" (2000) (6)
- Eugene D. Genovese: Historian of Slavery (2004) (5)
- Some thoughts on emancipation in comparative perspective: Russia and the United States South (1990) (5)
- Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. Technical Papers, Volume I: Markets and Production; Volume II: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom. (1994) (5)
- Slavery and the American Revolution (2008) (5)
- Alessandro Stanziani. Bondage. Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries . [International Studies in Social History, Vol. 24.] Berghahn, New York [etc.] 2014. $95.00; £60.00. (2014) (5)
- The Business Press and Reconstruction, 1865-1868 (1967) (5)
- Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham (review) (2012) (4)
- Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, and Reconstruction: A Quantitative Look at Southern Congressional Politics, 1868-1872 (1979) (4)
- Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. By William Kauffman Scarborough. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 521. $39.95, hardcover (2004) (4)
- Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross. ByHerbert G. Gutman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.183 pp. $7.95 (1976) (4)
- Reexamining Southern Emancipation in Comparative Perspective (2015) (3)
- Introduction: Variations of Slavery in the Atlantic World (2002) (2)
- Comparative Perspectives on Emancipation in the U.S. South: Reconstruction, Radicalism, and Russia (2012) (2)
- White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History. By George M. Frederickson (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. xxv + 356 pp. $19.95) (1982) (2)
- Slaves and Freedmen in Civil War Louisiana. By C. Peter Ripley. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, xiv + 237 pp. Tables, notes, essay on sources, bibliography, and index. $10.95.) (1977) (2)
- Complicating the Big Picture: Robin Blackburn's The American Crucible (2012) (1)
- The Slavery Debates, 1952–1990: A Retrospective. By Robert William Fogel and Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery. By David Brion Davis. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 115 pp. $18.95, ISBN 0-674-01182-1.) (2004) (1)
- Communities in Revolt: A Comment (2007) (1)
- Race, Class, and Poverty in the Post-Civil War South@@@The Roots of Black Poverty: The Southern Plantation Economy after the Civil War.@@@One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.@@@Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885. (1979) (1)
- Slavery, Commodification, and Capitalism (2016) (1)
- [Effect of the light regimen on cows and calves]. (1978) (1)
- in the the with Forced Labor and New Imperialism. (2014) (0)
- Reconstruction and Redemption in the South (review) (2012) (0)
- Foreword (2017) (0)
- The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality. By George M. Fredrickson (Middletown, Connecticut: Weslyan University Press, 1988. viii plus 310 pp. $35.00) (1990) (0)
- The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (2010) (0)
- Effectiveness of measures for controlling bovine leukosis. (1990) (0)
- Whiteness Studies II. An update on the new history of race in America (2009) (0)
- Steven Hahn. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 610. $35.00 (2004) (0)
- Reviews of Books:A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration Steven Hahn (2004) (0)
- Contributors to this Issue (1957) (0)
- Communications (2013) (0)
- Standing up to the lash (1994) (0)
- The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. By Roderick A. McDonald. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xvi, 339 pp. $39-95, ISBN 0-8071-1794-3.) (1995) (0)
- Gavin Wright. Slavery and American Economic Development. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 162. $25.00 (2007) (0)
- Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South. By Lacy K. Ford. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. viii, 673 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-511809-4.) (2010) (0)
- Toward the Scientific View of History: Selected Essays (review) (2013) (0)
- Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South by Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (review) (2013) (0)
- The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (2005) (0)
- Slavery and Freedom in the Civil War South (2021) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Rethinking American History in a Global Age Thomas Bender (2003) (0)
- Race, Slavery, and History@@@Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988.@@@Slavery: History and Historians. (1990) (0)
- The Sociologist as Southern Historian@@@Plantation Societies, Race Relations, and the South: The Regimentation of Populations. (1977) (0)
- The Myth of Radical Reconstruction@@@A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869. (1975) (0)
- Class Consciousness@@@Deromanticizing Black History: Critical Essays and Reappraisals. (1992) (0)
- The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865-1881 (review) (2013) (0)
- The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Supplement, Series I in twelve volumes. Volume I, Alabama Narratives (1979) (0)
- George P. Rawick, editor. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Supplement, Series 1 in twelve volumes. Volume 1, Alabama Narratives. (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, number 35.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1977. Pp. lviii, 499. $325.00 the set (1979) (0)
- Masters & Lords: Mid-19th Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers. By Shearer Davis Bowman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ix plus 357pp. $45.00) (1994) (0)
- Rethinking the Civil War Era: Directions for Research (2019) (0)
- Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South (Book) (2004) (0)
- Thomas C. Holt, The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832–1938 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xxxi + 517 pp. (1993) (0)
- Unfree Labor (1990) (0)
- To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance. By Peter P. Hinks. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xviii, 301 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-271-01578-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-271-01579-9.) (1997) (0)
- Contributors to this Issue (1983) (0)
- The Slaving Business@@@The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. (1982) (0)
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