(American Historical Association)
(An on-line journal of early America)
Christian J. Koot
Assistant Professor of History
E-Mail: ckoot@towson.edu
Telephone: 410-409-3934
Office: LA 4220
Mailing Address:
History Department
Towson University
8000 York Road
Towson, MD
21252-0001
The Jamaica Wine House, The City, London. 17th Century London's First Coffee House,
Castello Plan of New Amsterdam, 1660
Research Interests:
Colonial America, the History of the Atlantic World, Caribbean History, and Economic History
Courses
Hist 145: The History of the US to the Mid-19th Century
Hist 300: Introduction to Historical Study
Hist 345: Colonial America
Hist 346: Revolutionary America
Hist 362: Makers, Buyers, Users: The History of the American Economy, 1500-Present
Towson Seminar: Let's Go to the Mall: A History of Shopping in America
Education
University of Delaware, History Department, 1999-2005
Ph.D., History, 2005 (Advisor, Cathy Matson)
M.A., History, 2001
University of Virginia, 1995-1999
B.A., History and Economics, 1999
Publications
Book
Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713. Early American Places Book Series. New York University Press, 2011.
Articles
"The Merchant, the Map and the Empire: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake and Cross-National Trade, 1644-1673," The William and Mary Quarterly, 62, 4 (October 2010), 603-44.
"A 'Dangerous Principle': Free Trade Discourses in Barbados and the English Leeward Islands, 1650-1689," Early American Studies, 5, 1 (Spring 2007), 132-63.
"Constructing the Empire: English Governors and Inter-Imperial Trade in New York and the Leeward Islands, 1621-1689," Itinerario, 31, 1 (2007), 35-60.
"An Adaptive Presence: the Dutch role in the English Caribbean before and after the 'fall' of Dutch Brazil," De Halve Maen: Journal of the Holland Society of New York, 78, 4 (Winter 2005), 69-76.
Barbados
Antigua, English Harbour