Christopher Clark grew up in the London area, studied at the University of Warwick, and obtained his PhD in History at Harvard. He taught at the University of York for eighteen years, and was Professor of North American History at the University of Warwick for another seven years before moving to UConn in 2005. He has held visiting fellowships at Selwyn College, Cambridge; the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; St. Catherine’s College, Oxford; and the UConn Humanities Institute.
Social Change in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006), in press.
(Edited, with Kerry W. Buckley) Letters from an American Utopia: The Stetson Family and the Northampton Association, 1843-1847 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
(with Nancy Hewitt) Who Built America? Working People and American History, Society, Politics, and Culture vol. 1, To 1877 2 nd edition (New York: Worth Publishers, 2000).
The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995).
The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990).
“Industry and Technology,” in A New Introduction to American Studies, ed. Howard Temperley and C.W.E. Bigsby (London: Pearson, 2005).
"The Travails of the 19 th Century American Silk Industry," in Marjorie Senechal, ed., Silk Unraveled: Threads of Human History, Smith College Studies in History, vol. 53 (Northampton, MA, 2005).
“The Ohio Country in the Political Economy of Nation Building,” in Andrew Cayton and Stuart Hobbs, ed., The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005).
“The View from the Farmhouse: Rural Lives in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic 24 (2004): 198-207
“A Mother and her Daughters at the Northampton Community: New Evidence on Women in Utopia,” New England Quarterly 75, no. 4 (December 2002): 592-621
“Reshaping Society: American Social History from Revolution to Reconstruction,” in The State of U.S. History, ed. Melvyn Stokes (London: Berg, 2002).
" 'Martyrs to a Nice Sense of Honor': Exemplars of Commercial Morality in 19th Century America," in Heroic Reputations and Exemplary Lives, ed. Geoffrey Cubitt and Allen Warren (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000).
"Rural America and the Transition to Capitalism," Journal of the Early Republic 16, no. 2 (June 1996): 223-236.
"The Consequences of the Market Revolution in the American North," in The Market Revolution: Social, Cultural and Religious Expressions, ed. Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996).
"Social Structure and Manufacturing before the Factory: Rural New England, 1750-1830," in The Workplace before the Factory, ed. Thomas Max Safley and Leonard Rosenband (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993).
"Agrarian Societies and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century North America,” Development and Underdevelopment in America: Contrasts of Economic Growth in North and Latin America in Historical Perspective, ed. Walther L. Bernecker and Hans Werner Tobler (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1993).
"Economics and Culture: Opening Up the Rural History of the Early American Northeast," American Quarterly 43 no 2 (June 1991): 279-301.
"Household Economy and Labor in Rural Massachusetts: The Connecticut Valley, 1750‑1830," in Travail et loisir dans les sociétés pre-industrielles, ed. Barbara Karsky and Elise Marienstras (Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1991).
"The Truck System in Nineteenth‑Century New England: An Interpretation," in Merchant Credit and Labour Strategies in Historical Perspective, ed. Rosemary E. Ommer (Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press, 1990).
"The Diary of an Apprentice Cabinetmaker: Edward Jenner Carpenter's 'Journal', 1844‑45," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 98 (1988): 303-394.
"Household Economy, Market Exchange and the Rise of Capitalism in the Connecticut Valley, 1800‑1860," Journal of Social History 13 (1979‑80): 169-189.
"The Railroad Safety Problem in the United States, 1890‑1920," Transport History 7 (1974).
