Sean P Harvey

Biographic Data

ID455903
NAMESean P Harvey
GIVEN NAMESSean P
FAMILY NAMEHarvey
SIGNATUREHARVEY S P
AFFILIATIONSSeton Hall University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The Scientist Turned Spy: André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793 by Patrick Spero (review)

    Sean P HarveyARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2025

  • David W. Houpt. To Organize the Sovereign People: Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

    Open AccessSean P HarveyARTICLEThe American Historical Review2025

  • Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America. By Sharon Block

    Open AccessSean P HarveyARTICLEJournal of Social History2020

    Sharon Block’s short book makes two important contributions to early American studies. First, it provides an important illustration of the possibilities of digital humanities. Second, Colonial Complexions, a title in Penn Press’s Early American Studies series (disclosure: I am on the McNeil Center’s Advisory Council), offers an important corrective to “historians’ deployment of skin color categorizations as stable identities” (1). Colonial Comple…

  • Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas

    Open AccessSean P HarveyREVIEWJournal of American History2019

    This important collection reconsiders the refutation of evolutionary schema and racial essentialism in the work of Franz Boas, the key figure in U.S. anthropology, in light of his conversations with a “vast network of Indigenous collaborators” and other diverse scholars (p. x). As Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Lorado Wilner argue in their introduction, “Indigenous peoples helped to redirect the currents of Western metaphysics, drawing on their own cul…

  • Native Views of Native Languages: Communication and Kinship in Eastern North America, ca. 1800–1830

    Sean P Harvey, Sean P Harvey Sean P HarveyARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2018

    Although language families (such as Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Muskogean) have become familiar to early Americanists, scholars have yet to examine Native ideas about linguistic relationships as historically constructed categories. Sitting at the crossroads of work on Native identities and affiliations, indigenous communication networks, and Native traditions and histories, this article draws upon evidence from indigenous lexicons, descriptions of…

  • Nicholas Guyatt. Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

    Open AccessSean P HarveyARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    In Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation, Nicholas Guyatt examines the emergence of African American colonization and Indian removal in the U.S. early republic, and the appeal of these programs to “liberal” and “benevolent” whites who “emphatically denied that blacks or Indians were permanently inferior” (8–9). The “essential principle” of these plans, that “African Americans and Native Americans should leave the Un…

  • Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century

    Sean P HarveyARTICLEEthnohistory2018

  • Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous encounters and the contingency of race

    Sean P HarveyARTICLESocial History2016

  • Red Dreams, White Nightmares: Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815

    Sean P HarveyARTICLEJournal of American History2016Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Red Dreams, White Nightmares: Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815 Get access By Robert M. Owens. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. xii, 304 pp. $32.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1177–1178, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav775 Published: 01 March 2016

  • Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation

    Sean P HarveyARTICLEJournal of American History2015Cited by: 2

    Sean Harvey explores the morally entangled territory of language and race in this intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European and indigenous American languages strongly influenced whites beliefs about the descent and capabilities of Native Americans, he shows. These beliefs would play an important role in the subjugation…

  • An Eighteenth-Century Linguistic Borderland

    Open AccessSean P Harvey, Sean P Harvey Sean P HarveyARTICLEThe Pennsylvania Magazine of…2012

    In the eighteenth-century Pennsylvania backcountry, English, Scots-Irish, and German colonials and immigrants met Iroquoian, Algonquian, and Siouan speakers pushed by European settlement or pulled by the Six Nations to buffer Iroquoia. They created a complex, and at times confusing, linguistic landscape. Racial and ethnic diversity was audible, but language was also a permeable boundary. The journals of the Quaker trader James Kenny (1758–59, 176…