He is the author of Fire under the Ashes: An Atlantic History of the English Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015). With Evelyn Jennings, he co-edited Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree Labor and Imperial States in the Political Economy of Capitalism (Leiden: Brill, 2015). He is currently working on a book about the entangled histories of buccaneering, the slave trade, and slave revolts within the wider history of early modern capitalism.