e-mail: szabin@carleton.edu

"Might Makes White," review of Thelma Wills Foote, Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City, Reviews in American History Journal, Volume 33, Number 4, December 2005, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Serena Zabin presented two presented "Women’s Trading Networks and Dangerous Economies" at a conference entitled "Women’s Economies in Colonial British America" sponsored by the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia (October, 2004). In November 2004 she presented "'Cheats and Rogueries' in Eighteenth-Century New York City" at the Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History and Culture.

The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel Horsmandens Journal of the Proceedings, with Related Documents, The Bedford Series in History and Culture, Bedford/St. Martin's Press, paperbound, 200 pp. (approx.), February 2004.

Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York, University of Pennsylvania Press, cloth, 224 pp, June 2009, ISBN 978-0-8122-4160-0, a volume in the Early American Studies series.  A history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century, when Britain was just beginning to catch up with its imperial rivals, France and Spain. New York's culture emerged within the volatile forces of imperial politics and commerce. In that sparsely populated city on the fringe of an empire, enslaved Africans rubbed elbows with white indentured servants while the elite strove to maintain ties with European genteel culture. The transience of the city's people, goods, and fortunes created a notably fluid society in which establishing one's own status or verifying another's was a challenge. New York's shifting imperial identity created new avenues for success but also made success harder to define and demonstrate socially.