Hannah Farber, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History | Columbia University
Hannah Farber is an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. Her PhD is from the University of California, Berkeley. Her prizewinning first book, Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding, was published in 2021. She is a series co-editor of American Beginnings 1500-1900 at the University of Chicago Press.
June 8, 2024
Episode 8: The Trade
At the dawn of a new era after the Seven Years’ War, British officials envision commerce and colonies as the key to British independence and its rising glory, but trade in commodities and manufactured goods comes at an awful…