Andrew Cayton

Andrew Cayton, Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University, teaches courses in the history of North America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has written extensively about the struggle for control of the region west of the Appalachian Mountains and the emergence of political and cultural borders within the United States. His interest in empires and borderlands as well as questions of power and consent led to his collaboration with Fred Anderson in The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 (2005) and to his current work, also with Fred Anderson, Imperial America, 1672-1764.

Lecture topics:

• Local History as World History: The Origins of the American Midwest
• The Significance of North America in the Early American Republic
• Global Tourism, State Power, and the Significance of the American Civil War
• War and Empire in Trans-Appalachian North America, 1754-1815
• Acts of Imagination: Literature and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

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