John Shovlin

University of Chicago, PhD 1998

Political and cultural history of ancien régime Europe, particularly France; the French Revolution; history of political economy; aristocratic culture and politics; international politics and international political thought in eighteenth-century Europe; the Franco-British relationship.

Books:

The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism and the Origins of the French Revolution (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006) [paperback 2007].

 

 

Articles:

“Nobility,” in Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime, ed. William Doyle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

“Selling American Empire on the Eve of the Seven Years War: The French Propaganda Campaign of 1755–1756,” Past and Present (Feb 2010): 121–49.

“Rethinking Enlightened Reform in a French Context,” in Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies c. 1750-1830, ed. Gabriel Paquette (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), 47–62.

“Hume’s Political Discourses and the French Luxury Debate,” in David Hume’s Political Economy, ed. Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind (New York: Routledge, 2008), 203–222.

“Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750–1789,” in The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches, ed. Jay M. Smith (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006).

“Emulation in Eighteenth-Century French Economic Thought,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 36, no. 2 (2003): 224–230.

“The Cultural Politics of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century France,” French Historical Studies 23, no. 4 (2000): 673–701.

“Toward a Reinterpretation of Revolutionary Anti-Nobilism: The Political Economy of Honor in the Old Regime,” Journal of Modern History 72, no. 1 (2000): 35–66.