Paul Cheney
Biographic Data
| ID | 291366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Cheney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheney |
| SIGNATURE | CHENEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3523-4953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Land, Labor, and Capital
This article revisits the capitalism and slavery debate, specifically regarding the role of sugar plantations in the long eighteenth century. It begins by distinguishing between the Williams thesis and a more defensible version recently developed by Marxist historians. It then distinguishes between historians those who see slavery as inimical or essential to capitalism and those who see it as a nonessential but accelerating factor. Next it argues…
Moving Crops and the Scales of History
Inheritance and Incest: Toward a Lévi-straussian Reading of Montesquieu's De l'ESPRIT Des Lois1
The premise of this article is that Montesquieu, while seen as an Enlightenment thinker who contributed centrally to the development of the social sciences before the period of discipline formation in the nineteenth century, is generally appreciated in only the vaguest of terms. To the degree that he has been seen as a social theorist rather than as a belletrist or a political writer, scholars have had to amputate major sections of his masterwork…
Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order
István Hont, the Cosmopolitan Theory of Commercial Globalization, and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
This critical essay explores the work of István Hont. Members of the Cambridge school eschewed the term “capitalism” as an anachronistic description of the contexts that informed early modern politico-economic thought, preferring instead the ostensibly more neutral “commercial society.” But Hont's understanding of the latter was nevertheless quite present-minded and politically charged. Hont drove nineteenth- and twentieth-century economic theory…
The French Revolution’s Global Turn and Capitalism’s Spatial Fixes
This essay first explores two contexts that have transformed the way that the international history of the French Revolution has been written over the last thirty years and which have recently provoked so many historians to take a global turn in their research and teaching at the expense of strictly national historiography. First, political relations between France and the Anglo-American world in the 1980s made the older, regnant model of Franco-…
Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies
Sue Peabody’s Madeleine’s Children tells the story of Furcy, who was born into slavery on the French colony of Ile Bourbon (present-day Réunion) in 1786. Furcy’s legal claims to freedom, which he began to assert in 1817, were eventually vindicated by the French Royal Court in Paris, which in 1843 declared him a ‘freeborn man’. His mother, Madeleine, was an Indian who was most likely stolen or sold by her parents into slavery; she was sold to Anne…
La Persistance de l’Ancien Régime à Haïti: Mode de production et idéologie nationaliste
Depuis l’indépendance dont Saint-Domingue a de facto profité en 1798, le nationalisme haïtien est ancré dans une idéologie anti-esclavagiste qui s’est maintenue au fil des régimes successifs. Pour autant, ces régimes censément abolitionnistes ont cherché à maintenir un complexe de plantation sucrière à caractère agro-industriel nécessitant en réalité une main d’œuvre lourdement contrainte. Cet article décrit les continuités entre la Saint-Domingu…
Haiti’s Commercial Treaties: Between Abolition and the Persistence of the Old Regime
Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650–1820
Journal Article Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650–1820 Get access Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650–1820. By Jeff Horn. Cambridge: CUP. 2015. 318 pp. £65.00. ISBN: 978 1 1070 4628 3. Paul Cheney Paul Cheney University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2016, Pages 129–131, h…
National Identity and the Agrarian Republic: The Transatlantic Commerce of Ideas Between America and France 1750-1830
Over the last decade or so, political economy has gained a new centrality among historians interested in the development of political culture during the century of Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions that followed it. Among the many virtues of Manuela Albertone’s new book is that it explicitly conceptualizes the political economy of this period—which was so often written in the polemical contexts surrounding revolution, war and constitution …
A Colonial Cul de Sac
This article is a microlevel study of the effects of international warfare on one sugar plantation situated in one of the most highly developed and profitable areas of sugar cultivation in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue (Haiti) during the War of American Independence (1775 - 83). During this and similar conflicts, which were endemic to the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century, planters were cut off from the food supplies, capital goods a…
The Colonial Machine Dismantled: Knowledge and Empire in the French Atlantic
For nearly two decades, historians have been exploring with an ever-increasing intensity the connection between colonialism and the production of knowledge. This tendency has enriched our understanding of all periods from the early modern to the contemporary and has shed much needed light on the relationship between the growth of a capitalist world economy, colonial expansion, state formation and the development of modern scientific inquiry.1 Mor…
Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy
Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. The discovery of the New World and the rise of Europe's Atlantic economy brought unprecedented wealth. It also reordered the political balance among European states and threatened age-old social hierarchies within them. In this charged context…
Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics and Market Culture in Eighteenth–Century Paris
Book Review| July 01 2008 Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics and Market Culture in Eighteenth–Century Paris Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Sydney Watts. Paul Cheney Paul Cheney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 395–396. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.3.395 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul C…
The Colonial Machine Dismantled: Knowledge and Empire in the French Atlantic
For nearly two decades, historians have been exploring with an ever-increasing intensity the connection between colonialism and the production of knowledge. This tendency has enriched our understanding of all periods from the early modern to the contemporary and has shed much needed light on the relationship between the growth of a capitalist world economy, colonial expansion, state formation and the development of modern scientific inquiry.1 Mor…
István Hont, the Cosmopolitan Theory of Commercial Globalization, and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
This critical essay explores the work of István Hont. Members of the Cambridge school eschewed the term “capitalism” as an anachronistic description of the contexts that informed early modern politico-economic thought, preferring instead the ostensibly more neutral “commercial society.” But Hont's understanding of the latter was nevertheless quite present-minded and politically charged. Hont drove nineteenth- and twentieth-century economic theory…
The French Revolution’s Global Turn and Capitalism’s Spatial Fixes
This essay first explores two contexts that have transformed the way that the international history of the French Revolution has been written over the last thirty years and which have recently provoked so many historians to take a global turn in their research and teaching at the expense of strictly national historiography. First, political relations between France and the Anglo-American world in the 1980s made the older, regnant model of Franco-…
La Persistance de l’Ancien Régime à Haïti: Mode de production et idéologie nationaliste
Depuis l’indépendance dont Saint-Domingue a de facto profité en 1798, le nationalisme haïtien est ancré dans une idéologie anti-esclavagiste qui s’est maintenue au fil des régimes successifs. Pour autant, ces régimes censément abolitionnistes ont cherché à maintenir un complexe de plantation sucrière à caractère agro-industriel nécessitant en réalité une main d’œuvre lourdement contrainte. Cet article décrit les continuités entre la Saint-Domingu…
Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics and Market Culture in Eighteenth–Century Paris
Book Review| July 01 2008 Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics and Market Culture in Eighteenth–Century Paris Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Sydney Watts. Paul Cheney Paul Cheney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 395–396. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.3.395 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul C…
Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy
Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. The discovery of the New World and the rise of Europe's Atlantic economy brought unprecedented wealth. It also reordered the political balance among European states and threatened age-old social hierarchies within them. In this charged context…
A Colonial Cul de Sac
This article is a microlevel study of the effects of international warfare on one sugar plantation situated in one of the most highly developed and profitable areas of sugar cultivation in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue (Haiti) during the War of American Independence (1775 - 83). During this and similar conflicts, which were endemic to the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century, planters were cut off from the food supplies, capital goods a…
The Colonial Machine Dismantled: Knowledge and Empire in the French Atlantic
For nearly two decades, historians have been exploring with an ever-increasing intensity the connection between colonialism and the production of knowledge. This tendency has enriched our understanding of all periods from the early modern to the contemporary and has shed much needed light on the relationship between the growth of a capitalist world economy, colonial expansion, state formation and the development of modern scientific inquiry.1 Mor…
National Identity and the Agrarian Republic: The Transatlantic Commerce of Ideas Between America and France 1750-1830
Over the last decade or so, political economy has gained a new centrality among historians interested in the development of political culture during the century of Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions that followed it. Among the many virtues of Manuela Albertone’s new book is that it explicitly conceptualizes the political economy of this period—which was so often written in the polemical contexts surrounding revolution, war and constitution …
Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650–1820
Journal Article Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650–1820 Get access Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650–1820. By Jeff Horn. Cambridge: CUP. 2015. 318 pp. £65.00. ISBN: 978 1 1070 4628 3. Paul Cheney Paul Cheney University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2016, Pages 129–131, h…
Haiti’s Commercial Treaties: Between Abolition and the Persistence of the Old Regime
Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies
Sue Peabody’s Madeleine’s Children tells the story of Furcy, who was born into slavery on the French colony of Ile Bourbon (present-day Réunion) in 1786. Furcy’s legal claims to freedom, which he began to assert in 1817, were eventually vindicated by the French Royal Court in Paris, which in 1843 declared him a ‘freeborn man’. His mother, Madeleine, was an Indian who was most likely stolen or sold by her parents into slavery; she was sold to Anne…
La Persistance de l’Ancien Régime à Haïti: Mode de production et idéologie nationaliste
Depuis l’indépendance dont Saint-Domingue a de facto profité en 1798, le nationalisme haïtien est ancré dans une idéologie anti-esclavagiste qui s’est maintenue au fil des régimes successifs. Pour autant, ces régimes censément abolitionnistes ont cherché à maintenir un complexe de plantation sucrière à caractère agro-industriel nécessitant en réalité une main d’œuvre lourdement contrainte. Cet article décrit les continuités entre la Saint-Domingu…
The French Revolution’s Global Turn and Capitalism’s Spatial Fixes
This essay first explores two contexts that have transformed the way that the international history of the French Revolution has been written over the last thirty years and which have recently provoked so many historians to take a global turn in their research and teaching at the expense of strictly national historiography. First, political relations between France and the Anglo-American world in the 1980s made the older, regnant model of Franco-…
István Hont, the Cosmopolitan Theory of Commercial Globalization, and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
This critical essay explores the work of István Hont. Members of the Cambridge school eschewed the term “capitalism” as an anachronistic description of the contexts that informed early modern politico-economic thought, preferring instead the ostensibly more neutral “commercial society.” But Hont's understanding of the latter was nevertheless quite present-minded and politically charged. Hont drove nineteenth- and twentieth-century economic theory…
Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order
The Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Land, Labor, and Capital
This article revisits the capitalism and slavery debate, specifically regarding the role of sugar plantations in the long eighteenth century. It begins by distinguishing between the Williams thesis and a more defensible version recently developed by Marxist historians. It then distinguishes between historians those who see slavery as inimical or essential to capitalism and those who see it as a nonessential but accelerating factor. Next it argues…
Moving Crops and the Scales of History
Inheritance and Incest: Toward a Lévi-straussian Reading of Montesquieu's De l'ESPRIT Des Lois1
The premise of this article is that Montesquieu, while seen as an Enlightenment thinker who contributed centrally to the development of the social sciences before the period of discipline formation in the nineteenth century, is generally appreciated in only the vaguest of terms. To the degree that he has been seen as a social theorist rather than as a belletrist or a political writer, scholars have had to amputate major sections of his masterwork…
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · History (7 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economy (5 works)