Dr. Dael Norwood: 19th-Century US, Politics, Culture, Capitalism, Foreign Relations
Channel: Brian Oloo
Date: 23/04/2016

Dr. Norwood focuses on the global dimensions of politics, culture, and economics in the early United States. Norwood is especially interested in how global commerce influenced Americans' relations with other peoples and each other during the nineteenth-century – intranationally, internationally, and transnationally.

Dr. Norwood ourses investigate early U.S. history from a global perspective, and examine the history of politics, political economy, capitalism, slavery, the maritime world, and foreign relations, among other topics. 

"Trading Freedom: How Commerce with China Defined Early America" a forthcoming book of Norwood,  examines how the lucrative commerce between the United States and China that flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries became deeply intertwined with the struggles over sovereignty, imperial expansion, capital, labor, and race that defined the American state.