Peter Kolchin

1.6k total citations
54 papers, 517 citations indexed

About

Peter Kolchin is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Kolchin has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 517 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Anthropology and 12 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Peter Kolchin's work include Race, History, and American Society (17 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (13 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (12 papers). Peter Kolchin is often cited by papers focused on Race, History, and American Society (17 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (13 papers) and American Constitutional Law and Politics (12 papers). Peter Kolchin collaborates with scholars based in United States. Peter Kolchin's co-authors include Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox‐Genovese, Philip B. Morgan, Manisha Sinha, August Meier, Steven L. Hoch, Joseph P. Reidy, Robert L. Hall, Paul Finkelman and Sterling Stuckey and has published in prestigious journals such as American Political Science Review, The American Historical Review and Journal of American History.

In The Last Decade

Peter Kolchin

40 papers receiving 324 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Kolchin United States 11 290 148 129 68 63 54 517
James A. Rawley United States 11 204 0.7× 163 1.1× 144 1.1× 65 1.0× 69 1.1× 58 535
Steven Hahn United States 11 255 0.9× 125 0.8× 117 0.9× 51 0.8× 57 0.9× 34 499
Paul A. Gilje United States 10 175 0.6× 148 1.0× 105 0.8× 70 1.0× 71 1.1× 39 425
Gloria L. Main United States 14 129 0.4× 173 1.2× 93 0.7× 57 0.8× 136 2.2× 46 494
Alex Lichtenstein United States 11 367 1.3× 113 0.8× 79 0.6× 57 0.8× 34 0.5× 47 496
Steven M. Stowe United States 9 228 0.8× 76 0.5× 100 0.8× 86 1.3× 28 0.4× 39 462
Drew Gilpin Faust United States 10 257 0.9× 83 0.6× 158 1.2× 114 1.7× 40 0.6× 44 481
Douglas R. Egerton United States 11 249 0.9× 182 1.2× 99 0.8× 43 0.6× 27 0.4× 49 446
Donald G. Mathews United States 11 255 0.9× 64 0.4× 211 1.6× 115 1.7× 29 0.5× 42 451
Eliga H. Gould United States 9 317 1.1× 186 1.3× 264 2.0× 195 2.9× 85 1.3× 23 687

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kolchin, Peter. (2016). Planters, merchants, and slaves: plantation societies in British America, 1650–1820. Slavery and Abolition. 37(4). 761–763. 7 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter. (2015). Reexamining Southern Emancipation in Comparative Perspective. The Journal of Southern History. 81(1). 7. 1 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter. (2009). The South and the World. The Journal of Southern History. 75(3). 565. 2 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter. (2009). Whiteness Studies I. Journal de la Société des Américanistes. 95(1). 117–143. 1 indexed citations
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Sinha, Manisha & Peter Kolchin. (2004). A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 63(3). 325–325. 17 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter. (2002). Introduction: Variations of Slavery in the Atlantic World. The William and Mary Quarterly. 59(3). 551–554. 1 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter, John Hope Franklin, & Loren Schweninger. (2000). Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation. Journal of the Early Republic. 20(1). 163–163. 6 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter & Roderick A. McDonald. (1995). The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana.. Journal of American History. 81(4). 1704–1704.
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Kolchin, Peter, et al.. (1993). Une institution trés particuliére : l'esclavage aux États-Unis 1619-1877. Belin eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter & Eugene D. Genovese. (1993). The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860.. Journal of American History. 79(4). 1600–1600. 3 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter. (1992). More Time on the Cross? An Evaluation of Robert William Fogel's Without Consent or Contract. The Journal of Southern History. 58(3). 491–491. 4 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter. (1990). Unfree Labor. Harvard University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Morgan, Philip B. & Peter Kolchin. (1988). Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. The William and Mary Quarterly. 45(3). 592–592. 31 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter. (1986). Some Recent Works on Slavery Outside the United States: An American Perspective. A Review Article. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 28(4). 767–777. 2 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter. (1982). Reconstruction and Redemption in the South (review). Civil War history. 28(1). 79–80. 1 indexed citations
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Halperin, Charles J., et al.. (1982). Comparative History in Theory and Practice: A Discussion. The American Historical Review. 87(1). 123–123. 4 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter, et al.. (1978). Subordination or Liberation? The Development and Conflicting Theories of Black Education in Nineteenth Century Alabama.. The Journal of Southern History. 44(3). 474–474.
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Rose, Willie Lee & Peter Kolchin. (1973). First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction.. The Journal of Southern History. 39(4). 608–608. 2 indexed citations
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Kolchin, Peter. (1967). The Business Press and Reconstruction, 1865-1868. The Journal of Southern History. 33(2). 183–183. 5 indexed citations

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