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Beckert, Sven

LC control no.n 90700575
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Personal name headingBeckert, Sven
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Variant(s)Beckert, Sven, 1965-
Associated countryUnited States
Place of birthOffenbach (Germany : Landkreis)
Field of activityUnited States--History--19th century
Capitalism--History
AffiliationHarvard University
Profession or occupationCollege teachers
Found inBis zu diesem Punkt und nicht weiter, 1990: t.p. (Sven Beckert) p. 4 of cover (b. in Offenbach)
History of American capitalism, c2012: eCIP t.p. (Sven Beckert) data view screen (professor of American history at Harvard University)
Email from author, September 10, 2013 (author asked for his birth date to be removed from his record)
Harvard University WWW, viewed September 16, 2013 (Sven Beckert, Larid Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University; researches and teaches the history of the United States in the 19th century, with a particular emphasis on history of capitalism, including its economic, social, and political transnational dimensions)
Empire of cotton, 2014: ECIP t.p. Beckert, Sven (author previously requested that his birth year be removed from NAR; however, the 5 records in LC's database still reflected this date, i.e., 1965; updated the 5 records indicating the author's preferred form of his name)
Associated languageeng ger