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Jeremy Adelman

Jeremy Adelman, lead author of Volume 2 (D.Phil., Oxford University) has lived and worked in seven countries and on four continents. A graduate of the University of Toronto, he earned a master’s degree in economic history at the London School of Economics (1985) and a doctorate in modern history at Oxford University (1989). He is the author or editor of ten books, including Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2006) and Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (2013), a chronicle of one of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers. He has been awarded fellowships by the British Council, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies (the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship). For three decades, he both conducted his research and taught at Princeton University. He now has joined the faculty at Cambridge University, where he continues to teach and direct his highly regarded online modern world history survey, The Global History Lab, which is taken simultaneously by students at nearly two dozen universities around the world, including students living in refugee camps in the Middle East and in central and eastern Africa. His next books will be Latin America: A Global History and Earth Hunger: Global Integration and the Need for Strangers.

Jeremy Adelman

Jeremy Adelman, lead author of Volume 2 (D.Phil., Oxford University) has lived and worked in seven countries and on four continents. A graduate of the University of Toronto, he earned a master’s degree in economic history at the London School of Economics (1985) and a doctorate in modern history at Oxford University (1989). He is the author or editor of ten books, including Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2006) and Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (2013), a chronicle of one of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers. He has been awarded fellowships by the British Council, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies (the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship). For three decades, he both conducted his research and taught at Princeton University. He now has joined the faculty at Cambridge University, where he continues to teach and direct his highly regarded online modern world history survey, The Global History Lab, which is taken simultaneously by students at nearly two dozen universities around the world, including students living in refugee camps in the Middle East and in central and eastern Africa. His next books will be Latin America: A Global History and Earth Hunger: Global Integration and the Need for Strangers.

Books by Jeremy Adelman