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Daniel Rood

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Associate Professor

Dan Rood specializes in the history of Atlantic slavery and its intersections with the histories of technology, agriculture, and capitalism.  He teaches the pre-1865 half of the US introductory survey, as well as upper division courses in the Atlantic World and the US Civil War. He also co-directs "Dirty History: An Interdisciplinary Workshop in Agriculture, Environment, and Capitalism," which convenes monthly at UGA (www.dirty-history.org).

Selected Publications:

The Reinvention Of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, And Capitalism In The Greater Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Print.

“Beckert Is Liverpool, Baptist Is New Orleans: Geography Returns To The History Of Capitalism”. Journal of the Early Republic 36.1 (2016): n. pag. Print.

“An International Harvest: Slavery, The Virginia-Brazil Connection, And The Making Of The Mccormick Reaper”. Slavery’S Capitalism: A New History Of American Economic Development, Seth Rockman And Sven Beckert, Eds.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Print.

“Toward A Global Labor History Of Science”. Global Scientific Practice In The Age Of Revolutions, 1750-1850, Pat Manning And Dan Rood, Eds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Print.

“Plantation Laboratories: Industrial Experiments In The Cuban Sugar Mill, 1830-1860”. New Frontiers Of Slavery, Dale Tomich, Ed. . SUNY Press, 2016. Print.

“Bogs Of Death: Slavery, The Brazilian Flour Trade, And The Mystery Of The Vanishing Millpond In Antebellum Virginia”. Journal of American History101.1 (2014): n. pag. Print.

Education:

PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2010

Events featuring Daniel Rood
101 LeConte Hall

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Dan Rood. Professor Rood teaches courses on the U.S. Civil War, the U.S. South, and the Atlantic world. He is finishing a new book called "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Circuits of Techno-science in the Greater Caribbean, 1830-1860."…

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