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Watch Prof. Hancock's recent C-SPAN lecture "Edward Bernays & the Rise of Corporate Public Relations."
Selected Publications:
“Crafting the Peace,” in David K. Allison and Larrie D. Ferreiro, eds., The American Revolution: A World War (Smithsonian Books, 2018).
“The intensification of Atlantic maritime trade (1492-1815),” in Christian Buchet and Gérard Le Bouëdec, eds., La mer dans l’histoire: La période moderne (Boydell & Brewer, 2017).
“The Founding Twenty-Five,” in Marcus Binney and David Mann, eds., Boodle’s: Celebrating 250 Years, 1762-2012 (Libanus Press, 2012), 13-25.
Public Drinking in the Early Modern World: Voices from the Tavern, 1500-1800, vol.4: America (Pickering & Chatto, 2011).
"Organizing Our Thoughts: Global Systems and the Challenge of Writing a More Complex History," Journal of the Historical Society, 101 (2010).
Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste (Yale University Press, 2009).
History of World Trade Since 1450 (Macmillan, 2006).
The Letters of William Freeman, London Merchant (London Record Society, 2002).
Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735-1785 (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Works in Progress:
The Man of Twists and Turns: William Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and the End of Enlightenment (forthcoming).
The Papers of John Hull, Mintmaster (Colonial Society of Massachusetts, forthcoming).
Fields of Study
- Atlantic World
- Early America to 1815
- Early-Modern Britain and Empire
- Business and Economic Life
