Justin duRivage
I am a fourth year Ph. D. candidate whose research focuses on the political, intellectual, and economic history of the long eighteenth century. I am currently researching a dissertation entitled Taxing Empire: The American Revolution and the Clash over Imperial Political Economy, 1748-1776. The project reframes the American Revolution in imperial terms, bringing together political economic debates and the conflicts they inspired in Pennsylvania, Bengal, and Britain. The result will be a global narrative of the origins of the American Revolution, one that helps explain why Americans were alone among their imperial compatriots in taking to Revolution during the 1770s. The dissertation is based on extensive archival research conducted in the United States, Britain, France, and India as well as on pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, and official documents from throughout the British world. This research is generously supported by the Fox International Fellowship Program, The Huntington Library, Yale’s Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy, Yale International Security Studies, and the Beinecke Library.
Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, I received my B.A. in history from Pomona College in Claremont, California and an M. Phil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge. My teaching interests include the colonial history of North America, the history of early modern Europe, U. S. history to 1877, intellectual history, and the comparative history of revolution.
