Robin Einhorn

Professor
Office Hours: 
M 11-12, Tu 1-3
3211 Dwinelle
(510) 642-5419
einhorn@berkeley.edu
Education: 

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

Research Interests: 

United States - Political, Urban

Representative 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

Semester Course Title Syllabus
Spring 2012 103D.003 Taxes and Politics
Spring 2012 7B The United States from Civil War to Present
Fall 2012 285D.001 United States
Fall 2012 285D.002 United States
Spring 2011 7B U.S. History Survey: Civil War to the Present