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First Name
Hannah Knox
Last Name
Tucker
Country
Denmark
State
Affiliation
Copenhagen Business School
Website URL
https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments/department-business-humanities-and-law/hannah-knox-tucker
Keywords
Business History, History of Capitalism, Economic History, Maritime, Trade, Shipping, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurialism
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About Me

Hannah Knox Tucker is a historian of Early American economy and society. She is a tenure track assistant professor of history in the Department of Business Humanities and Law at the Copenhagen Business School. Hannah works at the intersection of cultural, imperial, and business history with a focus on the British Atlantic world. She is working on a book manuscript entitled Maritime Mastery: How Ship Captains Made the Atlantic World. She has published articles in the Business History Review, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, and the Journal of Management Inquiry and has book chapters in edited volumes from Oxford, Brill, and Palgrave. At CBS, Hannah is a member of the Centre for Business History, the Social and Technological Venturing group, and runs a work package in the Rethinking Entrepreneurship project.

Recent Publications

Tucker, H.K. & Wadhwani, R.D. (2025). Freedom’s Frictions: Entrepreneurial Imaginaries in the Making of American Capitalism and Democracy. Can Democracy and Capitalism Be Reconciled? (Eds. Sidney M. Milkis &  Scott C. Miller), 492–519. Oxford University Press. https://doi-org.esc-web.lib.cbs.dk/10.1093/9780197774731.003.0022

 

Tucker, H.K. & Lubinski, C. (2025). Entrepreneurialism: Conceptual Exploration of an Ideology. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, advance online https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2025.2547038

 

Tucker, H.K. (2024). Postmen of the Atlantic World: Captains Transmitting Epistolary Business News. Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World, 1620-1763 (Eds. Sophie Jones and Siobhan Talbott), 183–204. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689879_009

 

Tucker, H.K. (2023). Unfreedom and Slavery Under Sail: Intercolonial Trade in the British Atlantic, 1698-1766.  Business History Review, 97(4), 751–778, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680523000934

 

Tucker, H.K. (2022). Masters of the Market: Ship Captaincy in the British Atlantic, 1680–1774. Enterprise & Society. 23(4), 916-922. https://doi:10.1017/eso.2022.39

 

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Atlantic World
Expertise by Geography
British Isles, Caribbean, North America
Expertise by Chronology
17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
American Founding Era, Capitalism, Economic History