Bio

Jeremy Adelman is the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture at Princeton University, where he is also the Director of the Council for International Teaching and Research. Educated at the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics, and Oxford University, he combines an interest in global history with Latin American history. Among his books are Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World (1999), Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2006), and a co-authored trend-setting textbook, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of Humankind from Beginnings to the Present (3rd edition, 2011). In 2013, Princeton University Press will publish his Albert O. Hirschman and the Soul of Reform: A Modern Odyssey . Adelman has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Burkhart Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.