Faculty
Seymour Drescher
University Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1960)
University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3707 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7474
syd@pitt.edu
| Field(s) | Slavery and Abolition
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Teaching |
Western Civilization
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| Selected Publications | Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (Cambridge, 2009) The Mighty Experiment (Oxford, 2002) From Slavery to Freedom (New York University Press, 1999) Capitalism and Antislavery (Oxford University Press, 1986) Econocide (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977) Tocqueville and England (Harvard University Press, 1964)
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Honors/Awards |
UCIS Research Fellow (1992, 2000)
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Project(s) |
"Slavery and Antislavery in Global Perspective"; "British Antislavery in the Age of Revolution"; "Abolition and Imperialism"; "Tocqueville and Antislavery without Revolution"; "Anglo-American Paths to Emancipation: 1770-1870"
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Recent Book
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