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David HancockDavid Hancock is Professor of History at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Director of Michigan’s Atlantic Studies Initiative. He serves on the Board of Enterprise and Society. He teaches and researches in Business History, Atlantic History, and British-Imperial History. A specialist on the long eighteenth century, he is the author of Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), a study of how and why London entrepreneurs integrated the First British Empire. His second publication was an edition of The Letters of William Freeman, London Merchant, 1678-1685 (London Record Society, 2002), one of Britain’s earliest sugar planters, slave traders and commission merchants. His most recent study – of the emergence and self-organization of the Atlantic economy between 1640 and 1815 as viewed through the lens of Madeira wine production, distribution and consumption – is being published later this year by Yale University Press. He is currently completing a biography of the 2nd Earl of Shelburne and has recently begun researching the “disappearance” of markets. Professor Hancock received his A.B. degree in History and Music from the College of William and Mary, an A.M. degree in Musicology from Yale University in 1983, and a Ph.D. degree in History from Harvard University in 1990. He has also taught history at Harvard University (1990-1997) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2003). Email address: |
