Malcolm Crook
Biographic Data
| ID | 1024176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malcolm Crook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malcolm |
| FAMILY NAME | Crook |
| SIGNATURE | CROOK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5788-5151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution
Journal Article Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution Get access Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution By William DoyleLondon: Reaktion Books. 2022. 231 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-78914-617-2. Malcolm Crook Malcolm Crook Keele University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, crad056, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crad056 Published: 28 December 2023
At the Limits of Citizenship: Democratization and the Problem of Nonvoting in Britain and France, ca. 1848-2018
In contrast to the democratic principle that all adults should enjoy the right to vote, which is now a global norm, nonvoting has escaped any sort of historical closure. Millions of electors have always failed to vote, whether under conditions of limited, mass, or fully universal suffrage—and, in most Western states, electoral abstention is now at record levels. Yet despite its long-standing status as a popular phenomenon, nonvoting has received …
Forum: The Legacy of Alfred Cobban
Alfred Cobban enjoyed a long and distinguished career, though it was cut short by his untimely death in 1968, when he was at the centre of a burgeoning controversy over the causes and nature of the French Revolution, for which he is best remembered in academia. The dispute had begun after his appointment as Professor of French History at University College, London (UCL) when, in 1954, in the presence of the French ambassador, he delivered an infl…
A political economy of genocide in Australia
This chapter examines the full range of literature on aboriginal participation in the Australian economy. Most of the scholarly works that consider the question of genocide in Australia focus on the “dispersal” extermination campaigns of the 1800s and/or the issue of the “Stolen Generations.” While writers like Tony Barta and Patrick Wolfe imply that genocidal structuring dynamics are at work in Australia, theirs is a distinct minority opinion in…
History on the Margins. People and Places in the Emergence of Modern France
John Merriman has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a historian of nineteenth-century France, with more than a dozen books to his credit. Although he shows no signs of stopping, this collection of six previously published pieces offers a good vantage point from which to reflect on an academic life devoted to conducting research in and about the hexagon. These essays are in fact topped and tailed with a lengthy and a much shorter slice of…
Napoleon. A Very Short Introduction
Readers intimidated by the size of some recent biographies of Napoleon should be extremely grateful to David Bell for this succinct and lively account of his life and times, previously published by OUP in 2015 as Napoleon: A Concise Biography. It opens with the iconic alpine encounter between the returning Emperor and royalist troops at Laffrey, in the Isère, as he made his way to Paris, en route from exile on Elba, in the spring of 1815. Resista…
The French Revolution and Napoleon. Crucible of the Modern World
The authors of this fresh survey of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic watershed are old hands at providing accessible material on the subject and many university teachers will have used their Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution since its publication in 2001. This book considerably expands the scope to incorporate the Napoleonic period but, more significantly, its reach is global and, in that regard, it reflects the wide-…
L’Assemblée constituante et la réforme ecclésiastique, 1790. La constitution civile du clergé du 12 juillet et le serment ecclésiastique du 27 novembre
The author, an independent scholar with a French doctorate, is part of a group of historians located in Britain and the United States, as well as France, who are rewriting the history of the constitutional church during the French Revolution. Taking their cue from the pioneering work of Bernard Plongeron, they are sympathetically addressing a subject generally neglected, or badly treated, by hostile Catholic and republican historians alike. Dean …
Introduction: La voix du peuple? Voting from the ancien régime to the present day
The image of a person inserting a ballot paper into a box, or emerging from a polling booth, has become emblematic of representative democracy. The activity constitutes an important civic duty, albeit one that is infrequently exercised and rapidly accomplished today. We take it for granted and easily forget that the history of voting has followed a long, often chequered and contested trajectory, which continues to evolve, in close relation to the…
Robespierre
More than two centuries after his untimely end, the contradictions that Robespierre embodied, like the Revolution he incarnated, continue to deeply divide opinion. This latest biography bears many similarities to Peter McPhee’s ( Robespierre. A Revolutionary Life , reviewed in vol. 27, 2), which appeared recently. Both are written by academic historians with a thorough grounding in the period, which enables them to situate their subject firmly in…
Protest voting: The revolutionary origins of annotated ballot papers cast in French plebiscites, 1851–70
The three plebiscites conducted by Louis-Napoleon between 1851 and 1870 do not seem worthy of too much scholarly attention, since the overwhelmingly positive verdict they returned for the regime was entirely predictable. However, there is an unfamiliar aspect to these exercises in authoritarian democracy, which reveals a great deal about a subversive facet of voting and electoral culture in France: the use of the ballot paper as a means of protes…
Ballot papers and the practice of elections: Britain, France and the United States of America, c .1500-2000
The humble ballot paper is a defining technology of elections throughout the world. This article interrogates its contested past by demonstrating – over a long period and in the context of three contrasting countries – how and why it emerged in the early modern period and how it was then used, abused and regulated in the context of the expanded, and eventually mass, electoral arenas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ironically, by the ti…
Joseph F. Byrnes. Priests of the French Revolution: Saints and Renegades of the New Political Era
The radically reformed Catholic Constitutional Church in France, which lasted for a decade between 1791 and 1801, is a Cinderella of the revolutionary period. It has been shunned by orthodox religious historians, for whom its adherents were apostates, and ignored as an inconsequential ally by writers in the republican tradition. An accessible, general study is badly needed, especially in English, but this book does not fit the bill, despite a sup…
Universal Suffrage as Counter-Revolution? Electoral Mobilisation under the Second Republic in France, 1848-1851
The advent of mass, male suffrage in France in 1848 is usually regarded as a great success. There was a huge turnout in elections for a Constituent Assembly, but the outcome disappointed republicans, who failed to win a majority and blamed a backward peasantry. This paper suggests that the electoral system was at fault rather than the electorate. A hastily devised procedure, based on collective voting and the absence of declared candidatures, ena…
The First European Elections? Voting and Imperial State-Building Under Napoleon, 1802–1813
This article establishes the significance of elections held in the annexed departments of the Napoleonic Empire from 1802 to 1813. It thus represents an original, and perhaps surprising, contribution to recent debate on the nature of Napoleonic imperialism, in which attention has shifted from core to periphery, and away from purely military matters. The electoral process under this authoritarian regime has been alternately neglected or derided, e…
Marx, Lemkin and the genocide–ecocide nexus
A number of studies have shown that ecocide can be a method of genocide if, for example, environmental destruction results in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group's cultural and/or physical existence.1 With the ever-increasing rise of such cases of ecological destruction brought on by the extractive industries, or indirectly induced by anthropogenic climate change, we argue that the field of genocide studies should draw f…
The Mau Mau Genocide: A Neo-Lemkinian Analysis
This paper attempts to analyse the colonisation of Kenya by the British colonial government and the necessary genocidal effect on the ethnic group known as the Kikuyu through the lens of genocide as understood by Raphael Lemkin, the neologist of the term, and the post-liberal tradition he inspired.The latter tradition is grounded in a sociological understanding of genocide which this paper will argue is the most appropriate methodology in the stu…
Overture to Revolution: The 1787 Assembly of Notables and the Crisis of France’s Old Regime, by John Hardman
Rather like buses, the long wait for a study of the Assembly of Notables that met on the eve of the French Revolution has ended with two appearing in quick succession. Indeed, it could be as many as three if Olga Ilovaïsky’s polemical defence of Calonne, who fell from power as a result of opposition from the Notables, is also counted (La disgrâce de Calonne, 2008). The other recent arrival, Vivian Gruder’s The Notables and the Nation: The Politic…
The Perilous Crown: France between Revolutions, 1814–1848 – By Munro Price
France: Inventing the Nation – By Timothy Baycroft
Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France: Revolution and Remembrance, 1789–1799 ‐ By Joseph Clarke
Ma volonte est celle du peuple”: Voting in the Plebiscite and Parliamentary Elections during Napoleon's Hundred Days, April–May 1815
Histories of the Hundred Days, which followed Napoléon's bold and unexpected return from exile on Elba in 1815, have generally neglected the response of the French people, concentrating instead on the resurgent emperor himself and his definitive defeat at Waterloo. This study, part of a project exploring the elections of the Napoleonic period, aims to redress the balance by examining how French males voted in the plebiscite and parliamentary elec…
L’invention du barreau français 1660–1830: La construction nationale d’un groupe professionel By Hervé Leuwers
The Debate on the French Revolution By Peter Davies
The Shadow of Napoleon
Marx, Lemkin and the genocide–ecocide nexus
A number of studies have shown that ecocide can be a method of genocide if, for example, environmental destruction results in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group's cultural and/or physical existence.1 With the ever-increasing rise of such cases of ecological destruction brought on by the extractive industries, or indirectly induced by anthropogenic climate change, we argue that the field of genocide studies should draw f…
The Advent of the Secret Ballot in Britain and France, 1789–1914: From Public Assembly to Private Compartment
These days the secret ballot is taken for granted and it is often seen as the natural complement of universal, democratic suffrage. Its emergence, however, was just as contested and varied as the franchise and raised similar issues concerning the nature and practice of citizenship. This article focuses on the emergence of the secret ballot in Britain and France, two countries with a long history of parliamentary and local elections. In Britain, t…
Universal Suffrage as Counter-Revolution? Electoral Mobilisation under the Second Republic in France, 1848-1851
The advent of mass, male suffrage in France in 1848 is usually regarded as a great success. There was a huge turnout in elections for a Constituent Assembly, but the outcome disappointed republicans, who failed to win a majority and blamed a backward peasantry. This paper suggests that the electoral system was at fault rather than the electorate. A hastily devised procedure, based on collective voting and the absence of declared candidatures, ena…
Ballot papers and the practice of elections: Britain, France and the United States of America, c .1500-2000
The humble ballot paper is a defining technology of elections throughout the world. This article interrogates its contested past by demonstrating – over a long period and in the context of three contrasting countries – how and why it emerged in the early modern period and how it was then used, abused and regulated in the context of the expanded, and eventually mass, electoral arenas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ironically, by the ti…
Citizen Bishops: Episcopal Elections in the French Revolution
The enactment of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, which profoundly reformed the Catholic Church in France, has rightly been regarded as a major turning point in the French Revolution. Its implementation caused a substantial schism, not simply within the clergy, but also among the laity, with devastating consequences for the prevailing political consensus. Yet while a good deal of research has been devoted to an exploration of clerica…
Federalism and the French Revolution: The Revolt of Toulon in 1793
The People at the Polls: Electoral Behaviour in Revolutionary Toulon, 1789–1799
Journal Article THE PEOPLE AT THE POLLS: ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR IN REVOLUTIONARY TOULON, 1789–1799 Get access MALCOLM CROOK MALCOLM CROOK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 1991, Pages 164–179, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/5.2.164 Published: 01 June 1991
The persistence of the ancien régime in France: The estates general of 1789 and the origins of the revolutionary electoral system
Preparations for the Estates General of 1789 constituted one of the last acts of the anclen régime in France. The accompanying elections have received relatively little attention, yet they bequeathed much more to the electoral practices and political mentalités of the Revolution than most historians have realised. Though separate orders were preserved at the final meeting of the Estates General, with disastrous consequences for the monarchy, cust…
Short notices
Ager, D., ed., ACTIF 1992 (Aston Modern Languages Club, 1992), 117pp., ISBN 1 85 449083 4 Agulhon, M. Les Qusraate‐huitards (Gallimard, 1992), 263pp., 34F., ISBN 2 070 32685 3 Albert, J.‐L., La Politique Française de la concurrence. Le chant du cygne? (Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1992), 180pp., 90F., ISBN 2 7297 0420 5 Auzias, J.‐M., Michel Serres ‐philosophe occitan (Artigues‐près‐Bordeaux, Fedérop/Jorn, 1992), 167pp., 90F., ISBN 2 85792 067…
Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789–1799
This book explores the vital but neglected issue of elections in the French Revolution. Based on extensive research in different regions of France, it is the only general survey to examine the full range of local and national contests, from the Estates General to the advent of Napoleon. Focusing on electoral behaviour, it reveals a fascinating experiment with a quasi-universal suffrage, which established enduring features of French elections. The…
Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799
Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy, 1789-1799
Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Problems of Culture and Identity
This volume addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them: what does it mean to be a European? What place will minorities find in the Europe of the twenty-fir
Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Media, Film, Gender, Youth and Education
This volume, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Media, Film, Gender, Youth and Education , addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them are: what
Napoleon's France: History and heritage
Citizen Bishops: Episcopal Elections in the French Revolution
The enactment of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, which profoundly reformed the Catholic Church in France, has rightly been regarded as a major turning point in the French Revolution. Its implementation caused a substantial schism, not simply within the clergy, but also among the laity, with devastating consequences for the prevailing political consensus. Yet while a good deal of research has been devoted to an exploration of clerica…
Time for the Hero? Reappraising Napoleon on the Bicentenary of his Rise to Power
Books reviewed in this article: Isser Woloch, Napoleon and his Collaborators. The Making of a Dictatorship Andy Martin, Napoleon the Novelist R. S. Alexander, Napoleon Desmond Gregory, Napoleon’s Italy
The Work of Michel Vovelle
Journal Article The Work of Michel Vovelle Get access Malcolm Crook Malcolm Crook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 19, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 143–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cri007 Published: 01 June 2005
The Shadow of Napoleon
The Advent of the Secret Ballot in Britain and France, 1789–1914: From Public Assembly to Private Compartment
These days the secret ballot is taken for granted and it is often seen as the natural complement of universal, democratic suffrage. Its emergence, however, was just as contested and varied as the franchise and raised similar issues concerning the nature and practice of citizenship. This article focuses on the emergence of the secret ballot in Britain and France, two countries with a long history of parliamentary and local elections. In Britain, t…
L’invention du barreau français 1660–1830: La construction nationale d’un groupe professionel By Hervé Leuwers
The Debate on the French Revolution By Peter Davies
Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France: Revolution and Remembrance, 1789–1799 ‐ By Joseph Clarke
Ma volonte est celle du peuple”: Voting in the Plebiscite and Parliamentary Elections during Napoleon's Hundred Days, April–May 1815
Histories of the Hundred Days, which followed Napoléon's bold and unexpected return from exile on Elba in 1815, have generally neglected the response of the French people, concentrating instead on the resurgent emperor himself and his definitive defeat at Waterloo. This study, part of a project exploring the elections of the Napoleonic period, aims to redress the balance by examining how French males voted in the plebiscite and parliamentary elec…
The Perilous Crown: France between Revolutions, 1814–1848 – By Munro Price
France: Inventing the Nation – By Timothy Baycroft
Overture to Revolution: The 1787 Assembly of Notables and the Crisis of France’s Old Regime, by John Hardman
Rather like buses, the long wait for a study of the Assembly of Notables that met on the eve of the French Revolution has ended with two appearing in quick succession. Indeed, it could be as many as three if Olga Ilovaïsky’s polemical defence of Calonne, who fell from power as a result of opposition from the Notables, is also counted (La disgrâce de Calonne, 2008). The other recent arrival, Vivian Gruder’s The Notables and the Nation: The Politic…
The Mau Mau Genocide: A Neo-Lemkinian Analysis
This paper attempts to analyse the colonisation of Kenya by the British colonial government and the necessary genocidal effect on the ethnic group known as the Kikuyu through the lens of genocide as understood by Raphael Lemkin, the neologist of the term, and the post-liberal tradition he inspired.The latter tradition is grounded in a sociological understanding of genocide which this paper will argue is the most appropriate methodology in the stu…
The First European Elections? Voting and Imperial State-Building Under Napoleon, 1802–1813
This article establishes the significance of elections held in the annexed departments of the Napoleonic Empire from 1802 to 1813. It thus represents an original, and perhaps surprising, contribution to recent debate on the nature of Napoleonic imperialism, in which attention has shifted from core to periphery, and away from purely military matters. The electoral process under this authoritarian regime has been alternately neglected or derided, e…
Marx, Lemkin and the genocide–ecocide nexus
A number of studies have shown that ecocide can be a method of genocide if, for example, environmental destruction results in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group's cultural and/or physical existence.1 With the ever-increasing rise of such cases of ecological destruction brought on by the extractive industries, or indirectly induced by anthropogenic climate change, we argue that the field of genocide studies should draw f…
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