Christopher F. Clark (born 1953) is a British-American historian.
Life He grew up in the London area and graduated from the University of Warwick, and Harvard University, with a PhD in history.
Clark taught at the University of York for eighteen years, and at the University of Warwick for another seven years. He has taught at the University of Connecticut since 2005.
Work Clark specialises in 18th and 19th century North American and United States social and cultural history; the social history of economic life; the history of American capitalism; rural societies and industrialisation; abolitionism and utopian communities; and New England. His current research interests include Ideas about rural society and land reform in the U.S. and overseas, c. 1750-1960.https://history.uconn.edu/person/christopher-clark/ Accessed 24/Jan/2026.
Awards 1991 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Works "Household Economy, Market Exchange and the Rise of Capitalism in the Connecticut Valley, 1800–1860," Journal of Social History 13 (1979–80): 169–189.
Editor
References
External links "Comment on the Symposium on Class in the Early Republic", Journal of the Early Republic, Volume 25, Number 4, Winter 2005 "Book Review:Social Change in America", The American Historical Review "Review: The Roots of rural Capitalism", Business History Review