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Richard Johnson

  • Professor
    Early America, Constitutional History
    Email: rrj@uw.edu
    Phone: (206) 543-4967
    Office: SMI 312B
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    Office Hours: MTh 11:00-12:00 & By Appointment

    • Education

    Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1972.

    Selected Bibliography

    John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer: A Life between Empires. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

    Adjustment to Empire: The New England Colonies, 1675-1715. Newark, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1981.

    Articles in such journals as The Journal of American History (2) the William and Mary Quarterly (2) and chapters in various edited volumes on such topics as Indian-white relations, the Revolution of 1688/9, eighteenth-century British North America, constitution-making, garrison government and imperial policy, ancient Greece and early America, the historian Charles M. Andrews, the historiography of empire and of late Stuart England, and the clash of legislatures in the coming of the American Revolution.

    Research in Progress

    Early modern Atlantic history, the clash of administrative elites in eighteenth-century British America, the formation of states during the American Revolution.

    Graduate Fields Offered