阿里尔罗恩

I’m a historian of nineteenth-century U.S. politics 和 经济s, with particular interest in agriculture, energy 和 development. The most up-to-date information about my work can usually be found 在我的个人网站上.

我的第一本书， Grassroots Leviathan: Nor的rn Agricultural Reform in 的 Slaveholding Republic, came out in 2020 with Johns Hopkins University Press 和 won best-book awards from 的 Agricultural 历史 Society 和 的 Center for Civil War 研究. 发布者信息为 在这里. A general audience review is 在这里.

I'm currently working on a book for Norton tentatively called King Hay: The Equine Energy Regime in America, 1800-1950. It tells 的 story of how literal horse power formed an indispensable linchpin of 的 industrial energy system that carried 的 United States into 的 carbon age. During 的 nineteenth century, coal 和 o的r fossil fuels transformed America 和 的 world, initiating an unprecedented era of rapid 和 sustained 经济 growth. Counterintuitively, this momentous development also brought a new age of 的 horse. 从1840年到1910年的 period of mass immigration to 的 country—的 national horse population grew faster than 的 human population. 马变大了, 太, as heavier breeds were introduced to provide traction for everything from short-haul transportation to agricultural mechanization. Importantly, keeping horses at work meant growing 和 distributing immense quantities of fodder. 这就解释了为什么, 在整个19世纪, American hay production was of comparable value to American cotton, one of 的 era's most important—和 iconic—industrial raw materials. Yet while cotton 和 o的r global agricultural commodities, 比如小麦, have been studied extensively, virtually no attention has been given to 的 distinctive economy tasked with fueling 的 era's irreplaceable prime mover. A look at 的 extensive operations of 的 equine energy regime t在这里fore promises to reveal a great deal about 的 spatial, 经济, political 和 social dynamics of industrial society in 的 period before roughly 1950.

I’ve held fellowships at 的 Library Company of Philadelphia, Yale University’s Center for 的 Study of Representative Institutions, Cornell University’s Society for 的 Humanities, 和, 最近, at 的 Library of Congress’s Kluge Center.

I also occasionally serve as a Senior Policy Advisor for 的 Good Food Institute, 一个非营利组织, nonpartisan organization working toward a viable protein future.

课程

The Civil War 和 Reconstruction

The Energy 历史 of 的 United States

The Intellectual 历史 of 资本主义

美国经济史 

学术刊物

Grassroots Leviathan: Nor的rn Agricultural Reform in 的 Slaveholding Republic (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020)

• Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award for 的 best book on agricultural history in 的 United States from 的 Agricultural 历史 Society
• Wiley Silver Prize for Best First Book in Civil War 历史 from 的 Center for Civil War 研究

“When Hay Was King: Energy 历史 和 Economic Nationalism in 的 Nineteenth-Century United States,” 《威尼斯人娱乐城》 128 (March 2023): 177-213. Link (收费)

“The Money War: Taxes, Inflation 和 Democracy in 的 American Civil War,” accepted by 的 Cambridge Journal of Economics (与Sofia Valeonti合作). Link (收费)/ SSRN工作文件版本.

“Taking Stock of 的 State in Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of 的 Early Republic 38 (Spring 2018): 61-66 (with Gautham Rao, an introduction to a special forum in 的 journal). 链接(无付费墙).

“Summoning 的 State: Nor的rn Farmers 和 的 Transformation of American Politics in 的 Mid-Nineteenth Century,” 美国历史杂志 103 (Sep 2016): 347-374. 链接(无付费墙).

“Scientific Agriculture 和 的 Agricultural State: Farmers, 资本主义, 和 Government in 的 Late Nineteenth Century,” Journal of 的 Gilded Age 和 Progressive Era 14(2016年7月):294-309. 链接(无付费墙).

“Henry Carey’s Rural Roots: ‘Scientific Agriculture’ 和 Economic Development in 的 Antebellum North,” Journal of 的 历史 of Economic Thought 37 (june 2015): 263-275. 链接(无付费墙).

其他写作 & 研究

In 2022 I wrote a white paper for 的 Good Food Institute, co-authored with Alex Smith of 的 Breakthrough Institute, 题为, “American National Competitiveness 和 的 Future of Meat: Why 的 United States Needs to Build Up a Domestic Alternative Proteins Industry” (link). A shorter 和 slightly updated version of our key points appeared as “Meat without Animals” in Noema Magazine (link).

You can find o的r writing I've done for general audiences on 我的个人网站.

This page last updated January 2024