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Sep 13, 2024 · Emma Rothschild’s recent monograph An Infinite History (2021) is a fine and thought-provoking antidote to Richard Cobb’s provocation (while also being close to the ‘history from below’ tradition) and has been one inspiration behind the present volume. 9 The work, inspired by Italian microhistory, examines in the longue durée and in granular deta...
4 days ago · Working in the wake of the ‘global turn’ in history writing, historians such as Tonio Andrade, Francesca Trivellato, Emma Rothschild, and Margot Finn began to call for a new methodology that might serve to weave compelling humanistic narratives into large-scale analyses, thereby populating global history and social science models with people.
6 days ago · Not John Milton's version, but the one described by Emma Rothschild in her book, "Paradise Lost, the Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age." She wrote this more than 50 years ago.
Sep 13, 2024 · Secrétariat d’État de la Marine, Correspondance à l’arrivée de Guyane C/14/29, f°195, ANOM. Turgot served briefly as governor of French Guiana during the ill-fated Kourou expedition. See Emma Rothschild, ‘A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic,’ Past & Present 192 (2006), 67–108.
3 days ago · Emma Rothschild, “Where is Capital?” in Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics 2:2 (Summer 2021), pp. 291-371.
Sep 13, 2024 · Whether framed as a ‘social biography’ (Sue Peabody) or the ‘inner life of empires’ (Emma Rothschild), life-writing offers novel spatial and temporal perspectives on the history of the French Revolution.
Sep 5, 2024 · September 05, 2024. They Called It Peace. Available in 2 editions. Princeton University Press extends our congratulations to author Lauren Benton, whose book They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence has been shortlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize.
