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Charles Sellers
Best known for reshaping how readers understand Jacksonian America, this influential historian explored the tension between democracy and capitalism in the early United States. His work helped make big economic change feel central to everyday American life.
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Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes (Spanish and Portuguese Folklore)
by Charles Sellers
About the author
Charles Grier Sellers Jr. was an American historian born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1923. He studied at Harvard and earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, later teaching at Princeton before joining the University of California, Berkeley, where he became a longtime member of the history faculty.
He is most closely associated with The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846, a widely discussed book that offered a powerful new interpretation of early nineteenth-century America. He also wrote on James K. Polk and Andrew Jackson, and his scholarship focused on the political, social, and economic forces that shaped the United States.
Beyond his books, Sellers was remembered as a major figure in the study of American history and as an engaged public intellectual. He died in 2021 at the age of 98.