Peer Reviewed Publications

Books and Edited Journal Issues

Class Politics and the Creation of the US State. Under contract with University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2026. 

 

Editor, Special Issue, Journal of Historical Sociology. 33(10). “Capitalism and American Empire.” March 2020. 

 

How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West. London: Pluto Press, 2019.

 

American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers: Cooperation or Conflict?

Co-Edited with Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. (Leiden University). Routledge, 2017. 

 

Peer-Reviewed Papers

“Historicizing the Prison in the History of Capitalism,” Journal of World Systems Research 31, no. 1 (2025): 263–85

 

“Marx and Engels on Capitalism and Prisons.” Journal of Classical Sociology. Online first, January, 2025. 

 

“American Capitalism and the Decline of Debtors’ Prison in the 19th Century.” Critical Sociology. Currently published early access, October 2024. 

 

“Capitalism and the Creation of the U.S. Constitution.” Studies in American Political Development. 37(2), 2023. 

 

“The US, China, and Combined and Uneven Development.” Co-authored with Jake Lin (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley). In The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformation: Geographies of Rivalry, Bristol University Press, 2023. 

 

“Money, Commerce, and the History of Capitalism.” Science & Society. 85(4), 2021.

 

“Contested American Dominance: Global Order in an Era of Rising Powers.” Co-authored with Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies, 2020. 

 

“The Two Hundred and Fifty Year Transition: How the American Empire became Capitalist.” Journal of Historical Sociology. 30(3), 2017.

 

“What is, and what is not, a Capitalist Empire.” International Critical Thought. 6(1), 2016. 

 

“Expanding Geopolitical Economy: A Critique of the Theory of Successive Hegemonies.” Research in Political Economy: Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy. Edited by Radhika Desai. Volume 30a, 2015. 

 

 “American Power, East Asian Regionalism, and Emerging Powers: In or Against Empire?” Third World Quarterly. 34(7), 2013.