Ph.D., 1985, Trinity College, Dublin; M.A., Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut); M.B.A., Syracuse University; B.S., Boston College
Thomas M. Truxes
Clinical Professor, Irish Studies And History
Early-modern Irish history; Ireland and the Atlantic world before 1800; early-modern maritime history; the overseas trade of British America; eighteenth-century urban life, particularly New York City
Books
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Yale University Press, 2021Recipient of The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York's 69th Annual Distinguished Book Award
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The Amity Papers, 1690: The Siege of Limerick and Franco-Irish Mercantile Networks, co-edited with John Shovlin, in the British Academy’s Records of Social and Economic History seriesOxford University Press, forthcoming
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Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War: Reflections on the Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757Routledge, 2017Based on the “Bordeaux-Dublin Letters Conference” at Glucksman Ireland House NYU in October 2013.
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Oxford University Press, 2013Winner of the 2014 Prix Brives Cazes, awarded by the Académie Nationale des Sciences Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux.
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Yale University Press, 2008Chosen as a 2009 Francis Parkman Prize Finalist by The Society of American Historians.
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Cambridge University Press, 1988
“The Irish Merchant Community in 1757 Wartime Bordeaux,” in The Irish Community in Bordeaux during the Long Eighteenth Century: Assimilation, Contexts, Contributions, edited by Charles Ludington (Routledge, forthcoming).
“Merchants and Trade in the Early-Modern Atlantic,” in The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World, edited by Kenneth Morgan (Routledge, forthcoming).
“Charlotte at Sea: An Atlantic Odyssey on the Eve of Revolution,” The New England Quarterly, vol. XCVI, no. 3 (September 2023), 197–222.
“Doing Business in the Wartime Caribbean: John Byrn, Irish Merchant of Kingston, Jamaica (September – October 1756),” in Ireland, Slavery, and the Caribbean: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Finola Kane and Ciarán O'Neill (Manchester University Press, 2023), 87–100.
“The British Customs Service in Colonial America,” in Sea History, 176 (Autumn, 2021), 20–22.
“Mid-eighteenth-century Irish marriage as portrayed in The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters,” in Salvador Ryan, ed., Marriage and the Irish: a Miscellany (Dublin: Wordwell Books, 2019), 76–80.
“The Mayflower Letters, 1757–58: Correspondence from Limerick to the Caribbean in the Era of the Seven Years’ War," Archivium Hibernicum, LXX (2017), 85–114.
“Trading Diasporas,” Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, edited by Joseph C. Miller (Princeton University Press, 2015), 456–62.
“The Bordeaux–Dublin Letters Project: Documentary Editing, Public History, and Scholarly Exchange,” British Academy Review, 24 (Summer 2014), 54–59.
“The Breakdown of Borders: Commerce Raiding During the Seven Years’ War, 1755-1763,” Guerre de Course: Commerce Raiding and State-sponsored Piracy, edited by Bruce Elleman and S.C.M. Paine (Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press, 2013), 9–26.
“Dutch-Irish Cooperation in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Wartime Atlantic,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 10:2 (Spring 2012), 302-34.
“George Harison (1719-1773),” Le Monde Maçonnique des Lumières: Europe, Amériques, colonies, Dictionnaire prosopographique, edited by Charles Porset et Cécile Révauger, 3 vols. (Éditions Honoré Champion, Paris, 2013).
“Ireland, New York, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” American Journal of Irish Studies, 8 (2011), 3-34.
“Eighteenth-Century Trade,” American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U. S. History, edited by Karen Kupperman, John Demos, Brendan McConville, Melanie Gustafson, and Robert Johnston (5 vols., New York: MTM Publishing, 2011), 265-73.
“Irish Interloping Trade and Colonial Warfare in the 18th Century,” Irlanda y el Atlántico Ibérico: Molividad, Participación e intercambio cultural (1580-1823), edited by Igor Pérez Testado and Enrique García Hernán (Seville, 2010), 59-68.
“Connecticut in the Golden Age of Smuggling,” Connecticut Explored, 8:2 (Spring 2010), 28-33.
“London’s Irish Merchant Community and North Atlantic Commerce in the Mid-Eighteenth Century,” Irish and Scottish Mercantile Networks in Europe and Overseas in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, edited by David Dickson, Jan Parmentier, and Jane Ohlmeyer (Ghent: Academia Press, 2007), 271-309.
“Transnational Trade in the Wartime North Atlantic: The Voyage of the Snow Recovery,” Business History Review, 79 (Winter 2005), 751-80.
“Services,” History of World Trade Since 1450, edited by John J. McCusker, Louis P. Cain, Stanley L. Engerman, David Hancock, and Kenneth Pomeranz (2 vols., New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005), 2:650-2.
“Waddell Cunningham (1729-97)” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford, 2004.
“Trade and Trade policy, 1690-1800,” Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture, edited by James S. Donnelly, Jr. (2 vols., New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004), 2:710-11.
“The Case of the Snow Johnson: New York City’s Irish Merchants and Trade with the Enemy During the Seven Years’ War,” Re-figuring Ireland: Essays in Honour of L. M. Cullen, edited by David Dickson and Cormac Ó Gráda (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2003), 147-64.
“Connecticut in the Irish-American Flaxseed Trade, 1750-1775,” Éire-Ireland, 12 (summer 1979), 34-62.
“Mid-eighteenth-century Irish marriage as portrayed in The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters,” in Salvador Ryan, ed., Marriage and the Irish: a Miscellany (Dublin: Wordwell Books, 2019), 76–80.
“Mid-eighteenth-century Irish marriage as portrayed in The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters,” in Salvador Ryan, ed., Marriage and the Irish: a Miscellany (Dublin: Wordwell Books, 2019), 76–80.
Contact Information
Thomas M. Truxes
Clinical Professor, Irish Studies And History thomas.truxes@nyu.edu Glucksman Ireland House NYU 1 Washington Mews New York, NY 10003Phone: (212) 998-3950
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