David SCHLEY, Dr

David Schley specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. urban history and the history of capitalism. He received his PhD in American history from Johns Hopkins University. His first book, Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore, was published in 2020 by the University of Chicago Press. He is currently at work on another monograph titled Gridlocked: A History of Traffic in New York City before the Automobile, which reexamines nineteenth-century urban history through the lens of mobility. Schley has also written synthetic essays on urban and economic history for books published by Sage and Oxford University Press, and has published articles in Early American Studies and The Journal of Urban History.

Nineteenth-Century US History;
Urban History;
History of Capitalism;
Environmental History.