Kristofer Allerfeldt

Kristofer Allerfeldt is a British historian and farmer. He teaches History at the University of Exeter.

Background

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

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. He is an occasional political and cultural commentator for The Independent.

His published work has explored subjects such as the KKK, the Progressive Era, and U.S. deportation policy.

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

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