Emma Hart
Dr Emma Hart

Dr Emma Hart

BA (Oxford), MA, PhD (Johns Hopkins) - Lecturer

 
Contact Details

E-mail - efh2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462905
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914

 

 

Teaching and Research Interests

My major area of interest lies in the field of Colonial British American history, and to date my research has focused on the history of early America’s towns during the eighteenth century and their place in a larger British Atlantic world.  In addition to urban history, my work also touches on issues relating to southern history, material culture, and the history of the consumer and industrial revolutions.  A new project focuses on the history of market activity in pre-revolutionary America, and explores how settlers encountered the market on a day-to-day basis.

In addition to teaching courses on colonial and Revolutionary America, I also offer modules on American Slavery, the American Metropolis, and the Consumer Revolution in the British Atlantic world.

Main Publications

  • Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World (University of Virginia Press, 2010)

Articles and Chapters

  • "Charleston" in Oxford Bibliographies Online: The Atlantic World (forthcoming, 2013)
  • " The Ambition for an All Brick City: Elites, Builders and the Growth of Eighteenth-Century Charleston, South Carolina",
    in Carole Shammas (ed), Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment: Europeans, Asians, Settlers, and Indigenous Society. (Leiden, Brill 2012)
  • "Kingston, Jamaica and Charleston, South Carolina: A New Look at Comparative Urbanization in Plantation Colonial British America" Hart, E. F. K. & Burnard, T. Journal of Urban History. ( 2012)
  • "Work, Family, and the Eighteenth-Century History of the Southern Middle Class" Journal of Southern History, ( 1 Aug 2012)
  • “Building Charleston: The Expansion of an Eighteenth Century British Atlantic Town,” in David Shields, ed., The Material Culture of the Low country and the Tidewater (University of South Carolina Press, 2009)
  • “’The Middling Order are Odious Characters’: Social Structure and Urban Growth in Colonial Charleston, South Carolina,” Urban History 34, 2 (2007)
  • “Charleston and the British Industrial Revolution, 1760-1790”, in Michele Gillespie and Susanna Delfino (eds.), Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South (University of Missouri Press, 2005)

 

Administrative Duties

Sub-Honours Advisor
Director of the Early Modern MLitt Degree

Teaching Duties

Dr Hart participates in teaching and lecturing on MO2008, MO1007, HI2001 and MO1008 at sub-honours leve and offers the following modules at Honours level.

Also participates in teaching the MLitt in Early Modern History and the MLitt in Modern History

Research Students

Dr Hart would be happy to supervise students working on any aspect of American history before 1865, as well as those with interests in colonial America, the British Atlantic world, material culture in Britain and America in the early modern era, and urban history in Britain and its American colonies.

Main Publications

Hart Charleston