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