Education
He studied history, economics and political science at the University of Hamburg, Germany and then graduated from Columbia University with a Doctor of Philosophy in History.
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The Monied Metropolis. Cambridge University Press. 2001. . Rosenbaum, Julia B.
Beckert, Sven (19 January 2011). The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan. pp.
12–. . "From Tuskegee to Togo", Journal of American History, September, 2005"Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War", American Historical Review, Issue 109 (Dec 2004), pp. 1405–1438. (2004)"Democracy and its Discontents: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York", Past and Present (February 2002), pp. 114–155 (2002)Empire of Cotton: A Global History.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2 December 2014. .
Sven Beckert
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Career
He was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow. He was a Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow. He was a New York Public Library Fellow.
He is a Guggenheim Fellow.
The New York Times called it "one of the ten best books of 2015.".
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The Monied Metropolis. Cambridge University Press. 2001. . Rosenbaum, Julia B.
Beckert, Sven (19 January 2011). The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan. pp.
12–. . "From Tuskegee to Togo", Journal of American History, September, 2005"Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War", American Historical Review, Issue 109 (Dec 2004), pp. 1405–1438. (2004)"Democracy and its Discontents: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York", Past and Present (February 2002), pp. 114–155 (2002)Empire of Cotton: A Global History.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2 December 2014. .
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Germany
Education
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Guggenheim Fellowship; Pulitzer Prize for History; Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.; The Pulitzer Prize for History is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.; The Pulitzer Prize for History is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.