Participant Info
- First Name
- Abigail
- Last Name
- Swingen
- Country
- United States
- State
- 43
- abigail.swingen@ttu.edu
- Affiliation
- Texas Tech University
- Website URL
- http://www.depts.ttu.edu/history/faculty/profiles/swingen_abigail.php
- Keywords
- early modern Britain, empire, labor, political economy, Financial Revolution, Bank of England, South Sea Company, Royal African Company
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am Associate Professor of history at Texas Tech University. I also serve as an Associate Vice President for Research in the Office of Research & Innovation at TTU, where I focus on faculty development and outreach to the humanities disciplines on campus. My research interests include the origins and consequences of England’s Financial Revolution, the development of the British transatlantic empire, ideas of political economy, labor and slavery in the early modern world, and the development of early modern political culture. My latest book project, “The Financial Revolution and the British Empire in the 17th and 18th Centuries” explores the connections between the emergence of Britain as a financial capitalist economy, the development of public credit and the national debt, and the origins of the British empire in the early modern period. This project has received financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend Program, and the Huntington Library.
- Recent Publications
Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire (Yale University Press, 2015) https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300187540/competing-visions-empire
“Labor, Empire, and the State: The English Imperial Experience in the Seventeenth Century,” in The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook, Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, ed., Routledge Publishers, 2017.
“Labor,” in Cultural History of Western Empires, Vol. 4, The Enlightenment, 1650-1800, Ian Coller, ed., Antoinette Burton, series ed., Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, 2018
“Security, Stability, and Credit: The Hanoverian Succession and the Politics of the Financial Revolution,” in The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and its Empire, Brent S. Sirota and Allan I. Macinnes, eds., Boydell and Brewer Press, 2019.
“The Bubble and the Bail-Out: the South Sea Company, Jacobitism, and Public Credit in Early Hanoverian Britain,” in Boom, Bust, and Beyond: New Perspectives on the 1720 Stock Bubble, Stefano Condorelli and Daniel Menning, eds., DeGruyter Publishers, 2019.
- Media Coverage
- @AbbySwingen
- Country Focus
- Britain
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, British Isles, Caribbean, England, United Kingdom, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 3, 4, 6
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Colonialism, Economic History, Labor, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Slavery
