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Christopher Isett

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Department of History 920 HellerH

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • late imperial and modern Chinese economic, social, legal and political history
  • economic history
  • comparative history and social theory

Publications

  • State, Peasant, and Merchant on the Manchurian Frontier, 1644-1862. Isett, Christopher Mills, Stanford University Press, Author, 2007.
  • England's Divergence from China's Yangzi delta: Property Relations, Microeconomics, and Patterns of Economic Development. Isett, Christopher Mills, Robert Brenner, Author, 2002.
  • Village regulation of property claims and the social transformation of Qing Manchuria. Isett, Christopher Mills, 2004.
  • Sugar Manufacture and the Agrarian Economy of Nineteenth-Century Taiwan. Isett, Christopher Mills, 1995.

Research Activities

  • Imperialism, Capitalism, and the Logic of Peasant Production in Colonial Manchuria: ongoing
  • Nutrition and well being in eighteenth-century China: Anthropometric study: ongoing

Courses Taught

  • Hist 3465W - China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
  • Hist 5934 - Comparative History and Social Theory
  • Hist 5940 - Topics in Modern Chinese History
  • Hist 3462 - East Asia since 1500
  • History 3419: World Economic History since 1500
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Featured Faculty

  • Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

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    Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.

    Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.

    November 17th, 2009
  • Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

    Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.

    June 5th, 2009
  • Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

    Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.

    June 5th, 2009

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