Univ. of California, Berkeley, PhD 1983, MA 1977; Princeton, MPA 1972
Herrick Chapman
Professor Emeritus of History
French history; social history; economic history; history of public policy
Herrick Chapman is a modern European historian working mainly on the social, economic, and political history of twentieth-century France. Much of his work focuses on the uses of state authority in French society, and from that optic he has written on labor relations and business enterprise, gender and the welfare state, shopkeepers and anti-tax rebellions, and racism and discrimination. His new book, France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic (Harvard, 2018), explores how the French rebuilt their economy and their polity after the Second World War. He is currently exploring the impact of deindustrialization on France and elsewhere.
Books
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France's Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern RepublicCambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018
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L’Aéronautique: Salariés et patrons d’une industrie française, 1928-1950 (State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry)Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011
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Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of DifferenceBerghahn Books, 2004Co-edited with Laura L. Frader
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St. Martin's Press, 1998Co-edited with Mark Kesselman and Martin Schain
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New York University Press, 1995Co-edited with George Reid Andrews
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MacMillan, 1992Co-authored with Peter N. Stearns
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University of California Press, 1991
Journal
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French Politics, Culture & SocietyEditor, 1999-2020
"French Studies and Its Futures: Flourishing in a Tough Climate," French Politics, Culture & Society 32, 2 (Summer 2014).
“The State,” in The French Republic, ed. Edward Berenson, Vincent Duclert and Christophe Prochasson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011.
“Les petits commerçants et l’État de la révolte poujadiste au début de la Ve République,” in Les Petites et Moyennes Entreprises de 1880 à nos jours. Pouvoirs, representation, action, edited by Sylvie Guillaume and Michel Lescure. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2008.
“Choosing History, Discovering France,” in Why France: American Historians Reflect on Their Enduring Fascination, ed. Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.
“France’s Liberation Era, 1944-47: A Social and Economic Settlement?” in Revisiting the Liberation, ed. Andrew Knapp. New York: Palgrave, 2007.
“Réformateurs et contestataires de l’impôt après la seconde guerre mondiale,” in L’impôt en France aux XIXe et XXe siècles, ed. Maurice Lévy-Leboyer, Michel Lescure et Alain Plessis. Paris: Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France, 2006.
“The Liberation of France as a Moment in State-Making,” in Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth-Century France, ed. Martin S. Alexander and Kenneth Mouré. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002.
"Modernity and National Identity in Postwar France," French Historical Studies 22, 2 (Spring 1999).
Contact Information
Herrick Chapman
Professor Emeritus of History herrick.chapman@nyu.edu Institute of French Studies15 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-8743