8 ratings | 1 review | avg rating:5.00

Seth’s Year In Books

Seth’s 2024 Year in Books

Take a look at Seth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.

Go to Seth’s 2024 Year in Books

Seth Rockman’s Followers (13)

Seth’s Bookshelves

to-read (3)
currently-reading (0)
read (11)
books-i-ve-written (0)

Seth’s Friends (2)

Ann

633 books | 53 friends

Rebecca Brenner Graham

856 books | 396 friends

Seth Rockman

Goodreads Author

Website

https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman

Twitter

sethrockman

Genre

History

Member Since

August 2024

edit data

Seth Rockman is associate professor of history at Brown University. He is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore and coeditor of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development. Rockman serves on the faculty advisory board of Brown University’s Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. He lives in Providence. His new book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery will be published in November 2024.

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Seth Rockman questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Seth Rockman’s books

Average rating: 4.09 · 762 ratings · 95 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia) by Seth Rockman (Goodreads Author), Cathy Matson (Series Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development by Sven Beckert (editor), Seth Rockman (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery 4.47 avg rating — 34 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jacksonian America (American History Now) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der alte und der neue Materialismus in der Geschichte der Sklaverei (Re:work Lectures, 5) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Labor History and the History of Science 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If We Spoke... by Seth Rockman (Goodreads Author), Scott Fried (Editor), Matt Rockman (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents by Seth Rockman (2014-05-23) by Seth Rockman (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Seth Rockman…

1 post
Seth Rockman's Blog

Introducing Plantation Goods

Plantation Goods A Material History of American Slavery by Seth Rockman

I am so excited to share my new book with you this fall. I've been working on this book for more than a decade and it is the product of archival work in a dozen states.

The book continues my earlier explorations of the intertwined histories of slavery and capitalism, but on a national scale and through a material culture methodology that makes interregional connections visible through mundane Read more of this blog post »

Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on August 08, 2024 08:45

rss
Seth’s Recent Updates

Seth Rockman has read Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress (Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections) by Serena Dyer	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 26, 2025 05:36PM · like
Seth Rockman has read Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan C. Penningroth	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 26, 2025 05:36PM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Before the Movement by Dylan C. Penningroth. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Before the Movement by Dylan C. Penningroth <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Seth Rockman finished reading The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jul 26, 2025 05:35PM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Girl in the Middle by Martha A. Sandweiss. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Girl in the Middle by Martha A. Sandweiss <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Seth Rockman is starting The Girl in the Middle The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss progress:	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jun 23, 2025 06:49AM · like · see status · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Girl in the Middle by Martha A. Sandweiss. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Girl in the Middle by Martha A. Sandweiss <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Seth Rockman is currently reading The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jun 23, 2025 06:49AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Girl in the Middle by Martha A. Sandweiss. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Girl in the Middle by Martha A. Sandweiss <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Seth Rockman rated a book it was amazing Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company by Alice Driver	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jun 17, 2025 09:56AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Life and Death of the American Worker by Alice Driver. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Life and Death of the American Worker by Alice Driver <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Seth Rockman rated a book it was amazing North Woods by Daniel Mason (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 29, 2024 01:57PM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of North Woods by Daniel Mason. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — North Woods by Daniel Mason <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Seth Rockman rated a book it was amazing A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell by Joy Neumeyer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Sep 14, 2024 04:07PM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of A Survivor's Education by Joy Neumeyer. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — A Survivor's Education by Joy Neumeyer <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Seth Rockman rated a book it was amazing Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The descriptive richness of Erpenbeck's prose is compelling. The book works best for readers who know Berlin and who are interested in the epic transformations of life there in the late-1980s and early-1990s. It is a powerful meditation on historic d ...more
Aug 27, 2024 05:38AM · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Seth Rockman is now following Tiya Miles Author of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's S...
Aug 08, 2024 08:54AM · like

More of Seth's books…

Quotes by Seth Rockman (?)

“Too often capitalism appears as a synonym for market exchange and not as a political economy that dictated who worked where, on what terms, and to whose benefit.”
― Seth Rockman

0 likes

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The History Book ...: DAVE K'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2016	113	104	Dec 28, 2016 11:10AM
The History Book ...: * INTRODUCTION - AMERICAN HISTORY	170	701	Jul 03, 2020 10:27PM
NonFiction Pulitzers: September-October 2025 Group Read	7	14	May 08, 2025 08:51AM
Play Book Tag: 2025 Pulitzer Prize	19	35	May 09, 2025 08:10AM
NonFiction Pulitzers: Pulitzer News & Announcements	316	263	May 14, 2025 04:39PM

More…

Seth Rockman’s Followers (13)

Seth Rockman

Goodreads Author

rssSeth’s Recent Updates

See a Problem?

Preview — Before the Movement by Dylan C. Penningroth

See a Problem?

Preview — The Girl in the Middle by Martha A. Sandweiss

See a Problem?

Preview — The Girl in the Middle by Martha A. Sandweiss

See a Problem?

Preview — The Girl in the Middle by Martha A. Sandweiss

See a Problem?

Preview — Life and Death of the American Worker by Alice Driver

See a Problem?

Preview — North Woods by Daniel Mason

See a Problem?

Preview — A Survivor's Education by Joy Neumeyer

See a Problem?

Preview — Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

Topics Mentioning This Author

rss
Seth’s Recent Updates