Mahogany
April 12, 2013
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15861554-mahogany Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America by Jennifer L. Anderson In the mid-eighteenth…
Jennifer Anderson
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My new book entitled, Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America, published by Harvard University Press, will be available in September 2012. It examines the history of mahogany consumption in North America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the resulting human and environmental impacts in the West Indies and Central America where it was harvested using enslaved African labor. The book is based on my dissertation which won the Society of American Historians' Nevins Prize for Best-Written Dissertation in 2007. As an Atlantic historian, I am interested in the complex relationships (social, economic, and political) that developed among the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean in the early modern period. Using a comparative perspective, I explore the history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, issues of labor, race, and gender, and the rise of nationalism and revolutionary movements. My other interests include: environmental history, Early American social and cultural history, material culture, natural history and knowledge production, museum studies, and public history. Before joining the History faculty at Stony Brook University, I worked as a museum curator, exhibition developer, and historical consultant at numerous historic sites and museums. Most recently, I served as historical advisor for the Emmy-nominated documentary about the New England slave trade, entitled “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North.” Key Search Words: mahogany; slavery; history; environmental history; economic history; "Jennifer Anderson" "Jenny Anderson" "Jennifer L. Anderson" SCHOLARLY WORKS: Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Harvard University Press, Sept. 2012). http://www.hup.harvard.edu/results-list.php?search=mahogany&submit.x=0&submit.y=0. “Better Judges of the Situation: Environmental Realities & Problems of Imperial Authority in the Bay of Honduras,” Itinerario, special issue: “Geographies of Empire,” (2006, issue 3).
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