Rothschild, Emma - The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History

January 01, 2011

Emma Rothschild. Princeton University Press, 2011.
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THE HISTORY OF FRANCE IN THE WORLD is now newly and brilliantly transnational.It is also disconnected, for the most part, from the largest stories of national destiny. There are two Frances, in an enduring understanding: a real France, or
la France profonde of the majority of individuals who lived local, small-scale, and immobile lives; and a France of the superficial or fluctuating periphery, of ports, frontiers, and foreign influences. Read more...

	Emma Rothschild Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History Director, Center for History and Economics Article: "Isolation and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century France," American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 4 (October, 2014), pp. 1055-1082. I am Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics, and am involved in a collaborative research project, at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard, “Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas. Recent publications include "The Archives of Universal History" (Journal of World History, September 2008), “A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic” (Past and Present, August 2006), Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001) and The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). Read more...

Emma Rothschild Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History Director, Center for History and Economics
Article:
"Isolation and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century France," American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 4 (October, 2014), pp. 1055-1082. I am Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics, and am involved in a collaborative research project, at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard, “Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas. Recent publications include "The Archives of Universal History" (Journal of World History, September 2008), “A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic” (Past and Present, August 2006), Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001) and The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). Read more...