Robin Einhorn

Professor


Contact

Office: 3211 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: Wednesday 12-2pm
Phone: (510) 642-5419
Email: einhorn@berkeley.edu

Education

A.B., University of Chicago
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Major Publications

Books

American Taxation, American Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Reissued with new Preface, 2001.

Articles

"Institutional Reality in the Age of Slavery: Taxation and Democracy in the States," Journal of Policy History 18 (2006): 21-43.

"Early Impact of Slavery," in The Reader's Companion to the American Congress, ed. Julian Zelizer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

"Political Culture," in The Encyclopedia of Chicago, ed. James R. Grossman, et al. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

"Patrick Henry's Case Against the Constitution: The Structural Problem With Slavery," Journal of the Early Republic 22 (2002): 549-73.

"Species of Property: The American Property Tax Uniformity Clauses Reconsidered," Journal of Economic History 61 (2001): 973-1007.

"Slavery and the Politics of Taxation in the Early United States," Studies in American Political Development 14 (2000):197-225.

"The Civil War and Municipal Government in Chicago," in Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays, ed. Maris A. Vinovskis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 117-38.

Courses

History 7A: United States History to 1865 (Fall 2005)