Carole Shammas
An expert on the history of wealth and consumption in America
Holder of John R. Hubbard Chair in History
Professor and Chair of History
Contact at: (213) 740-1671, (323) 936-3746 or shammas@usc.edu
Expertise:
- the social, economic and legal history of colonial America and early modern Britain
- the history of inheritance and wealth distribution
- the history of consumption and standards of living
- the history of household government in the U.S.
- space problems in early American cities
- Author of The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America (1990) and A History of American Household Government (2002)
- Co-author of Inheritance in America: Colonial Times to the Present (1987)
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