Professor
Preston Hotchkis Professor in the History of the United States
Education
AB, University of Chicago
PhD, University of Chicago
Research Interests
United States
- Political Economy
- Taxation
- Cities
- 19th Century
Books
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American Taxation, American Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Read a Special Essay, "Tax Aversion and the Legacy of Slavery" |
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Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Reissued with new Preface, 2001. |
Select Articles
"Liberty, Democracy, and Capacity: Lessons from the Early American Tax Regimes," in The New Fiscal Sociology Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective, ed. Monica Prasad, Isaac Martin, Ajay Mehrotra (New York: Cambridge University Press 2009), 155-72.
"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.
