Fields of research#

Seymour Drescher

In more detailed terms the major foci of my scholarly research have been two:

My first field of interest was in the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville. My first book, Tocqueville and England (1964), demonstrated that the usual scholarly concentration on Toqueville as an explorer of Americn and French societies overlooked the central and continuous role of Britain in his intellectual and political development.

My next book Dilemmas of Democracy(1968), was a pioneering study in Tocqueville's social and economic thought, a subject that has since become an area of great scholarly interest.

Since the 1970s I have benn concentrating on the history of slavery and its abolition.

My first venture, a book entitled Econocide,(1977), helped to launch a prolongued scholarly controversy, "perhaps one of the most complex in modern historical scholarship" (C. L. Brown, Moral Capital (2006), p.15ff.) Econocide's continuing impact is evidenced by its forthcoming republication this year, 33 years after its initial publication. I have since published four more works on comparative slavery and abolition, most recently Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (2009). My next to last work, The Mighty Experiment (2002), was awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize in 2003, by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University.

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