Kristofer Allerfeldt

Kristofer Allerfeldt is a British historian and farmer.^[1] He teaches History at the University of Exeter.^[2]

Background

The Allerfeldt family, originally from Sweden, lived and farmed at Yarner House on Dartmoor.^[3]

Career

Allerfeldt's research focuses on the history of racism, nationalism and organised crime in the United States, and the creation of modern American society.^[4] He is an occasional political and cultural commentator for The Independent.^[5]

His published work has explored subjects such as the KKK,^[6] the Progressive Era,^[7] and U.S. deportation policy.^[8]

In 2024, he published the first history of the Ku Klux Klan from ‘its origins in post-Civil War Tennessee to the present day’.^[9]

Selected works

• Race, Radicalism, Religion and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924. Praeger, 2003
• Beyond the Huddled Masses: American Immigration and the Treaty of Versailles. IB Tauris, 2006
• The Progressive Era in the USA 1890 - 1921. Ashgate, 2007
• Crime and the Rise of Modern America. Routledge, 2011
• Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941. McFarland, 2018
• The Ku Klux Klan: An American History. The History Press, 2024