Mark Peterson, history professor

Mark Peterson, professor of history, teaches and writes about colonial America and the American Revolution. His specialty is Boston and New England, and he is currently completing a book for Yale University Press called The City-State of Boston, 1630-1865. His earlier works include The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England (Stanford, 1997), as well as numerous articles and essays. He edits a regular column, "Common Reading," in the on-line journal of early American history Common-place.org. His scholarly interests include the history of ideas about economic life, and the nature of community formation in the early modern Atlantic