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Last update filed on 11-1-2010
This update refers to the period 7-1-2010 to 6-30-2013
John Majewski
Professor IV O/S
History
Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of Texas at Austin (History and Economics), B.A., 1988
London School of Economics (Economic History), M.Sc., 1989
University of California at Los Angeles (American History), M.A., 1991
University of California at Los Angeles (American History), Ph.D., 1994
Area of Specialization
U.S. History
American Economic, Social and Legal History, 1780-1865
Southern History
U. S. Civil War
Professional Experience
1991-92
1994-95
1994-95
1995-1999
1999-2008
20082009-2012
2012-
Teaching Assistant, University of California at Los Angeles, History Department
Lecturer, University Of California at Irvine, Economics Department
Lecturer, University Of California at Los Angeles, History Department
Assistant Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, History Department
Associate Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, History Department
Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, History Department
Chair, History Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Associate Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara
Professional Organizations
Organization of American Historians
Economic History Association
American Historical Association
Southern Historical Association
Business History Conference
All-UC Economic History Group
Bio-Bibliography
Last update filed on 11-1-2004.
This update refers to the period 7-1-2007 to 6-30-2010
PART I: RESEARCH
Cumulative List of Publications (or Creative Activities)
#
YEAR
TITLE and AUTHORS
PUBLISHER
CATEGORY
1
1990
"James M. Landis"
Encyclopedia of Business
History
ENCYCLOPEDIA
ENTRY
2
1990
"Mutual Savings Bank"
Encyclopedia of Business
History
ENCYCLOPEDIA
ENTRY
3
1990
"New York Safety Fund"
Encyclopedia of Business
History
ENCYCLOPEDIA
ENTRY
4
1992
"Economy, Community, and Law:
The Turnpike Movement in New
York, 1797-1845" by Daniel Klein
and John Majewski
Law and Society Review, 26, no. 3,
pp. 469-512
ARTICLE
5
1993
"Responding to Relative Decline:
The Plank Road Boom of Antebellum
New York" by John Majewski,
Christopher Baer, and Daniel
Klein
The Journal of Economic History
53 (March), pp. 106-122
ARTICLE
6
1994
"The Economist as Historian? F. A.
Hayek and the Definition of the
Market"
Southwestern University Law
Review, 23, pp. 561-564
ARTICLE
7
1994
"Urban Investment versus Local
Enterprise: Railroad Financing
in Pennsylvania and Virginia,
1830-1860"
Business and Economic History,
23, pp. 92-101
ARTICLE
8
1994
"Plank Road Fever in Antebellum
America: New York State Origins"
by Dan Klein and John Majewski
New York History, January,
pp. 39-65
ARTICLE
9
1995
Politics of Industrialization by
Colleen A. Dunlavy
Journal of the Early Republic, 15,
Spring, pp. 155-156
10
1996
"Commerce and Community: Internal
Improvements in Virginia and
Pennsylvania, 1790-1860"
Journal of Economic History, 56, June,
pp. 467-69
ARTICLE
11
1996
"Who Financed the Transportation
Journal of Economic History,Vol. 4,
ARTICLE
REVIEW
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Revolution? Regional Divergence and
Internal Improvements in Antebellum
Pennsylvania and Virginia"
no. 56,December, pp. 763-788
12
1996
Spreading the News: The American
Postal System from Franklin to
Morse by Richard R. John
Journal of Economic History, 56,
September, pp. 734-735
REVIEW
13
1997
"A Revolution Too Many?"
Journal of Economic History, 57, no. 2,
June, pp. 476-480
REVIEW
ARTICLE
14
1997
"The Political Impact of Great
Commercial Cities: State
Investment in Antebellum
Pennsylvania and Virginia"
Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
XXVII:1, Summer, pp. 1-26
ARTICLE
15
1998
The Artificial River: The Erie Canal
and the Paradox of Progress, 18171862 by Carol Sheriff
Journal of Economic History, 58, no. 1,
March, pp. 268-269
REVIEW
16
1999
Endless Novelty: Specialty
Production and American
Industrialization, 1865-1925
by Philip Scranton
Labor History, Vol. 40, no. 3, August,
pp. 395-396
REVIEW
17
2000
A House Dividing: Economic
Development in Pennsylvania
and Virginia before the Civil
War
Cambridge University Press, 214pp.
18
2000
Opening the West: Federal Internal
Improvements before 1860 by Laurence
J. Malone
Journal of Economic Literature, 38
(March), pp. 156-158
REVIEW
19
2000
The Emergence of the Global Political
Economy by William R. Thompson
Economic Affairs, 20 (December),
pp. 62-63
REVIEW
20
2001
"Economic Development"
Oxford Companion to
ENCYCLOPEDIA
American History. New York:
ENTRY
Oxford Universtiy Press. pp. 205-207
21
2001
"Roads and Turnpikes, Early"
Oxford Companion to
ENCYCLOPEDIA
American History. New York:
ENTRY
Oxford Universtiy Press. p. 670
22
2001
From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State:
Fraternal Societies and Social Services,
1890-1967 by David T. Beito
Economic Affairs, 21 (March), pp. 63-63
REVIEW
23
2001
A History of Banking in Antebellum
Journal of American History, 87
REVIEW
BOOK
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America: Financial Markets and
Economic Development in an Era of
Nation-Building by Howard
Bodenhorn
(March), pp. 1483-1484
24
2001
Internal Improvement: National
Public Works and the Promise of
Popular Government in the Early
United States, by John Lauritz Larson
EH-NET, July
REVIEW
25
2002
"Emptying King Cotton's coffer:
Economics played an important role
in the South's defeat" a review of
Northern Naval Superiority and
the Economics of the American Civil
War by David G. Surdam
Civil War Book Review (Spring), p. 11
REVIEW
26
2002
The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt
and Southern Industrialization by
Curtis J. Evans
Journal of American History, Vol. 89,
December, p. 1043
REVIEW
27
2002
Railroads and American Law by James
W. Ely, Jr.
Business History Review, Vol. 76,
pp. 574-576
REVIEW
28
2003
"Imagining 'A Great Manufacturing
Empire': Virginia and the Possibilities
of a Confederate Tariff" with Jay
Carlander
Civil War History, Vol. 49, December,
pp. 334-352
ARTICLE
29
2003
Roots of Secession: Slavery and
Politics in Antebellum Virginia by
William A. Link
Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography Vol. 111, no. 1, pp. 187-188
REVIEW
30
2003
Confederate Industry: Manufacturers
and Quartermasters in the Civil War
by Harold S. Wilson
Journal of Economic History, Vol 63,
September, pp. 901-902
REVIEW
31
2003
The American Way: A Geographical
History of Crisis and Recovery by
Carville Earle
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 63,
December, pp. 1163-1165
REVIEW
32
2003
Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War by
David Williams, Teresa Crisp
Williams, and David Carlson
Civil War Book Review, Summer
REVIEW
33
2003
Railroads in the Civil War: The
Impact of Management on Victory
and Defeat by John E. Clark, Jr.
Civil War History, Vol. 49, June,
pp. 200-201
REVIEW
34
2003
Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and
Law and History Review, Spring,
REVIEW
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Commercial Society in Antebellum
America by Edward J. Balleisen
pp. 229
35
2004
Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine
and Myth in Antebellum America
by Angela Lakwete
Business History Review, Vol. 78,
no. 3, pp. 520-522
REVIEW
36
2004
Calculating the Value of the Union
by James L. Huston
Journal of Southern History, Vol. 71,
no. 1, pp. 160-161
REVIEW
37
2004
The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered
by Robert E. Wright
Journal of American History, Vol. 91,
no. 3, pp. 999-1000
REVIEW
38
2005
Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in
Jacksonian New England by Michael
J. Connolly
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 64,
pp. 277-278
REVIEW
39
2005
"Markets and Manufacturing: Industry
and Agriculture in the Antebellum
South and Midwest," co-authored
with Viken Tchakerian
Global Persepectives on Industrial
ARTICLE
Transformation in the American South
edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele
Gillespie (University of Missouri Press)
40
2006
"Toward a Social History of the
Corporation: Shareholding in
Pennsylvania, 1800-1840"
The Past and Future of Early American ARTICLE
Economic History: Needs and
Opportunities edited by Cathy Matson
(University of Pennsylvania Press)
41
2006
A House Dividing: Economic
Development in Pennsylvania
and Virginia before the Civil
War
Paperback edition, New York:
Cambridge University Press
42
2006
American Rails and the
Transformation of the Ante-bellum
Economy
EH-Net (Classic Review in
Economic History)
REVIEW
ESSAY
43
2007
"The Environmental Origin of Shifting
Cultivation: Climate, Soils, and Disease
in the Nineteenth Century U.S. South"
co-authored with Viken Tchakerian
Agricultural History, Vol. 8
pp. 522-49
ARTICLE
Slavery and American Economic.
Development by Gavin Wright
Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography, Vol. 116, no. 1,
pp. 76-78
Modernizing a Slave Economy:
The Economic Imagination of the
Confederate Nation
University of North Carolina Press
44
45
2008
2009
BOOK
REVIEW
BOOK
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46
2010
Slavery, Emanicipation, and Freedom
By Stanley Engerman
Civil War History, Volume 56,
no. 2, pp. 222-23
REVIEW
47
2010
Clash of Extremes: The Economic
Origins of the Civil War by Marc
Egnal
American Historical Review
pp. 545-546
REVIEW
48
2010
“Economy and Politics before 1860”
Princeton Encyclopedia of
Political History Princeton
University Press
ENCYCLOPEDIA
ARTICLE
49
2010
“Albert Gallatin”
Encyclopedia of U.S. Political
History, vol. III. CQ Press
ENCYCLOPEDIA
ARTICLE
50
2010
“Railroads”
Encyclopedia of U.S. Political
History, vol. III. CQ Press
ENCYCLOPEDIA
ARTICLE
51
2010
Review of Robert Bonner, “Mastering
America”
Southern Quarterly (Oct. 2010)
“Two Roads to the Transportation
Revolution: Early Corporations in
U.K. and the United States” by Dan
Bogart and John Majewski
Understanding Long-Run Economic
Growth: Essays in Honor of Kenneth
L. Sokoloff, edited by Dora L. Costa
and Naomi R. Lamoreaux.
University of Chicago Press
52
2011
53
2012
“The Value of Troublesome Knowledge:
Transfer and Threshold Concepts in
Writing and History” With Linda AdlerKassner and Damian Kishnick
54
2012
“Geography as Power: The Political
Economy of Matthew Fountain Maury,”
With Todd Wahlstom
55
2013
56
2013
57
2013
Capitalism Takes Command:
The Social Transformation of Nineteenth
Century America
58
2013
“In Search of Public History’s Threshold
Concepts” with Randy Bergstrom
REVIEW
Composition Forum
26 (Fall)
BOOK
CHAPTER
JOURNAL
ARTICLE
Virginia Magazine of History
& Biography vol. 120, no. 4
JOURNAL
ARTICLE
“Imagined Economies: Economic
Nationalism in the American and
Confederate Independence Movements”
State and Citizen: British
America and the Early United
States, edited by Peter Thompson
And Peter Onuf.
BOOK
CHAPTER
Robert Gudmestad, Steamboats
And the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
American Historical Review vol. 180,
no. 2: 514-15.
REVIEW
Journal of American History vol.99,
no. 4: 1246-47
REVIEW
History@Work Blog Post
BLOG
POS T
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WORK IN PRESS, SUBMITTED, IN PREPARATION
IN PRESS:
B1
“Foreword to Second Edition” of Emancipating Slaves,
Enslaving Freemen, Open Court Publishing
FOREWORD
B2
Williams S Belko, The Triumph of the Antebellum Free Trade Movement,”
Journal of Economic History
REVIEW
B3
William G. Thomas, The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making
Of Modern America in The Journal of Southern History
REVIEW
SUBMITTED:
C1
C2
“Why Did Northerners Oppose the
Expansion of Slavery? Economic
Development and Education in the
Limestone South”
“Environment and Economy in
Nineteenth-Century
Hampton Roads,”
Slavery’s Capitalism, edited by
Sven Becker and Seth Rockman
The Urban South and the Civil
War, ed. by Andrew
Slapp and Frank Towers
BOOK
CHAPTER
BOOK
CHAPTER
IN PREPARATION:
D1 “Freeing the Lavish Hand of Nature: Northern Capital and the Transformation of the Nineteenth-Century
South”
D2 “Economic Creativity and the Coming of the Civil War”
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PART III: PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Lectures Presented:
1989-90
"Market and Community in Antebellum America: The Plank Roads of New York," Von
Gremp Workshop in Economic History, University of California at Los Angeles, April
1990-91
"Promoters and Investors in Antebellum America: The Plank Roads of New York," Business
History Conference, Toronto, Canada, April, with Daniel Klein
1991-92
"Economy, Community, and Law: The Turnpike Movement in New York," All-UC
Conference in Economic History, University of California at Davis, November, with Daniel
Klein
1992-93
"Economic Culture and Commercial Development: The Possessive Community in the
Virginia Piedmont, 1790-1850," Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, April
1993-94
"The Triumph of Landed Wealth Over Corporate Power: Eminent Domain in Virginia and
Pennsylvania, 1790-1860," Annual Meeting of the American Society of Legal History,
Memphis, Tennessee, October
"Urban Investment versus Local Enterprise: Railroad Financing in Pennsylvania and Virginia,
1830-1860," All-UC Conference in Economic History, University of California at Los Angeles,
November
"The Economist as Historian: F.A. Hayek and the Definition of the Market," F.A. Hayek and
Contemporary Legal Thought Symposium, Southwestern University School of Law, Los
Angeles, December
"Southern and Northern Railroads in Comparative Perspective," Business History
Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, March
1995-96
"Who Financed the Transportation Revolution? Internal Improvements in Virginia and
Pennsylvania, 1800-1860," National Bureau of Economic Research, Boston, MA, July
"Possessive Communitarianism and the Growth of Markets in Virginia and Pennsylvania,"
Pacific Branch of the American Historical Association, Maui, Hawaii, August
"Commerce and Community," Dissertation Session of the Economic History Association,
Chicago, September
"'An Indispensable Requisite to Her Future Prosperity:' Great Commercial Cities and
Government Economic Policy in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1815-1860," Southern Historical
Association Meetings, New Orleans, November
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"Understanding Andrew Jackson and American Populism," Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center New Faculty Series Lecture, April
1996-97
"Why Virginians Never Built Big Cities: Urban Growth in Pennsylvania and virginia before
the Civil War," UCLA, October
"Why Virginians Never Built Big Cities: Urban Growth in Pennsylvania and virginia before
the Civil War," University of Michigan, October
"Who Financed the Transportation Revolution?" at University of Toronto and Queen's
University, October
"Urban Capital and Regional Divergence," Organization of American Historians, San
Francisco, April
1997-98
"The Social Origins of the Early Corporation," American Historical Society, Seattle, December
"Comparative Urban Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia," All-UC Economic History
Conference, Santa Clara, CA, March
1998-99
"The Rise and Decline of Shareholding in Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania," Business
History Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March
"Economic History and U.S. Public Policy in the Nineteenth Century," History of Public
Policy Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, May
1999-2000
"Public Spirit and Capital Markets in the American and British Turnpike Movements, 17501830," Business History Conference, Palo Alto, March
"Democracy, Development and the Corporation in Pennsylvania and Britain, 1800-1845,"
Von Gremp Seminar in Economic History, UCLA, May
2000-01
"The Booster Spirit and the Middle Atlantic Region: Shareholding in the Pennsylvania
Transportation Corporations, 1800-1840," The Library Company of Philadelphia Conference
on "The Past and Future of Early American Economic History: Needs and Opportunities,"
Philadelphia, PA, April
2001-02
"Imagining 'A Great Manufacturing Empire': Virginia and the Possibilities of a Confederate
Tariff," Von Gremp Seminar in Economic History, UCLA, February
"Imagining 'A Great Manufacturing Empire': Virginia and the Possibilities of a Confederate
Tariff," All-UC Group in Eonomic History Conference, March
"Integration or Autarky? Strategies for Economic Development in Civil War Virginia," The
6th Annual Southern Industrialization Project Conference, St. Louis, MO, May
2002-03
"Thomas Jefferson's Economic Revolution from Below," St. Clair lecture, University of
Pittsburgh, Greensburg, October
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"Southern Leviathan: Economic Policy and the Origins of Confederate Secession," Virginia
Historical Society, Richmond, VA, August
2003-04
"Shifting Cultivation and State Railroad Investment in Antebellum Virginia and South
Carolina," Social Science History Association meetings, Baltimore, MD, October
"Shifting Cultivation and the Economic Development of the Antebellum South," Von Gremp
Seminar in Economic History, University of California at Los Angeles, May
2004-05
"Industry and Agriculture in the South and Midwest," Southern Historical Association,
Memphis, TN, November
"Shifting Cultivation and Economic Development in Virginia and South Carolina," All-UC
Economic History Group, UC Davis, November
"Railroads and State Activism in the Antebellum South," Business History Conference,
Minneapolis, MN, March
2005-06
"Modernizing A Slave Economy: State Activism and Confederate Secession," Thomas S. Berry
Lecture in Economic History, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, March
"Agricultural Reform and State Activism in Antebellum Virginia and South Carolina,"
Business History Conference, Toronto, Ontario, June
2006-07
"Why Philadelphia was the 'Best of Losers,'" Pennsylvania Historical Association,
Philadelphia, PA, October
2007-08
“Two Roads to the Transportation Revolution,” NBER Conference in Honor of Ken Sokoloff,
UCLA, November
2008-09
“Imagined Economies: Economic Nationalism in the American and Confederate
Independence Movements: Conference on State and citizen, Oxford, England, April
“Imagined Economies: Economic Nationalism in the American and Confederate
Independence Movements” All-UC Conference in Economic History, Riverside, May
“Two Roads to the Transportation Revolution,” Business History Conference, Bocconi
University, Milan, June
2009-10
“Imagined Economies: Economic Nationalism in the American Confederate Independence
Movements,” Southern Historical Association, Louisville, Kentucky, November
“Slavery, Capitalism, and Civil Society: The Case of the Limestone South,” Harvard
Economic History Workshop, Cambridge, MA, April
“Southern Secessionists and Economic Imagination of the Confederacy,” Alfred DuPont
Chandler, Jr. Lectureship in Southern Business History, UNC Chapel Hill, April
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2010-11
“Capitalism and Civic Culture in the Limestone South,” Conference on “Slavery’s
Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development,” Harvard and Brown
Universities, April 2011
2011-12
“The Limestone South and the Failure of Southern Modernization,” Invited Lecture,
University of Georgia, October
“A Slaveholder’s Enlightenment: School Attendance in the Kentucky Bluegrass Region,”
Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, March
“Concurrent Contexts: Students, Instructors, and Threshold Concepts” Conference on
College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, March
“Freeing the Lavish Hand of Nature: Environment and Economy in NineteenthCentury Hampton Roads,” Conference on “The American Civil War and Cities of the Slave
South,” Alberta, Canada, May
2012-13
“Threshold Concepts and Teaching GE History Courses,” Workshop presentation at
Georgetown University, October
“Threshold Concepts: General Education, Writing, and History,” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, March
“Why Did the Antebellum South Produce So Little Inventive Activity? Patenting Rates and
Policy Failures in the Antebellum South,” Chapman University and All-UC Economic History
Conference on “Historical Perspectives on Political Elites and Economic Growth,” Orange, CA,
May
Grants and Contracts:
Principal
Investigator
Years
Source
1988-89
Olin Fellowship to attend London School of
Economics
$
pi
1991-92
Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia
Historical Society
$
pi
1992-93
Dissertation Fellowship, Philadelphia
Center for Early American Studies
$
pi
Rovensky Dissertation Fellowship, Economic
History and Business Association
$
pi
Beveridge Research Grant, American
Historical Association
$
pi
Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA
$
pi
1993-94
Amount
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1994-95
Commonwealth Conference Grant (to attend
conference on "Politics and the Market
Revolution" in London, England)
1995-97
Academic Senate Funding
for travel to conferences
1996-97
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Funding
for All-UC Economic History Conference
$2,000.00
pi
Research Grant from the All-UC Economic
History Group
$1,500.00
pi
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
Conference Grant with Ken Moure)
$5,000.00
co-pi
UC Humanities Research Institute funding
for "States and Societies" (with Ann Plane)
$4,500.00
co-pi
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center seminar
funding for "States and Societies" (with Ann Plane)
$2,250.00
co-pi
1997-98
Academic Senate Funding for travel to conferences
1998-99
Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Visiting
Lecture Co-sponsorship Grant
$
pi
$825.00
pi
$950.00
$5,000.00
$350.00
pi
pi
pi
1999-2000
Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant
$1,800.00
pi
2000-01
Grant for Teaching GenEd 1DW (Freshman Seminar)
$1,000.00
pi
2001-02
Mini-grant from Instructional Development to
digitize slide collection
$1,000.00
pi
Instructional Improvement Mini-grant
to hire a graduate student to digitize slides and
edit images in Photoshop
$1,000.00
pi
2002-03
Mellon Fellow, Virginia Historical Society
$1,200.00
pi
2003-04
Howard Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship,
Brown University
$20,000.00
pi
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Awards and Honors:
1995-96
Nevins Prize for best dissertation in North American economic history, Economic History
Association
2002-03
Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate, University of California at Santa Barbara
2003-04
Hubbell Prize, $1,000 for best article published in Civil War History for 2003 (#28, "Imagining
'A Great Manufacturing Empire': Virginia and the Possibilities of a Confederate Tariff" with
Jay Carlander)
Howard Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship, Brown Unviersity
2005-06
Invited to give the Thomas S. Berry Lecture in Economic History at the University of
Richmond, Richmond, VA
2008-09
Gilbert C. Fite Award for Best Article in Agricultural History, Agricultural History
Association
2009-10
Gave Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. Lectureship in Southern Business History, UNC Chapel
Hill, April
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