Representative Publications
Dilemmas of Democracy: Tocqueville and Modernization (Pittsburgh 1968)
Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (London/New York, 1986/2010)
The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor vs. Slavery in British Emancipation (New York, Oxford, 2002) Frederick Douglas Book Prize
Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (New York/Cambridge, 2009)
Co-ed. Cambridge World History of Slavery: Vol 4, 1804-Present (New York/Cambridge, forthcoming, 2017)
Film
Confrontation: Paris 1968, with Eugene McCreary (1970)
Research Interests
Alexis de Tocqueville, Slavery and Abolition in global perspective