James Livesey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Livesey |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Livesey |
| SIGNATURE | LIVESEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0860-7563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830
This book explores the subtle transformation of the coastal province of the Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Mining a wealth of archival sources, the book unveils how provincial elites and peasant households unwittingly created new practices. Managing local political institutions, establishing new credit systems, building networks of natural historians, and introducing new plants and farm machinery to the region opened up the inhabitants of t…
Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830
An Alternative Genealogy for Global Capitalism: The Rhine Becomes an Inland Sea, 1792–1815
This article argues that the change that opened the door to a capitalist world, one dominated by capitalist norms, was the alteration to the boundary between economic and public power that followed the era of the democratic revolution and in particular the French Revolution. There is consensus of the institutional creativity fostered by the resistance to Louis XIV. The role of the French Revolution and the Congress settlement in fostering capital…
James T. Kloppenberg. Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
Accounting for democracy is difficult; accounting for democratic thought, even more so. Intellectual historians have established that there was no sustained tradition of democratic thought in the early modern period. Civic humanism, monarchical sovereignty, and natural jurisprudence were among the many traditions of European political thought with well-established canons and communities of interpretation for which democracy existed only as an int…
Anna Plassart. The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
The French Revolution and the Scottish Enlightenment are two of the most challenging areas of research in eighteenth-century history; taking them on together is particularly brave. The Scottish Enlightenment was too diverse to be reduced to any particular view on commercial society, but skeptics, critics, and enthusiasts were all focused on that novelty. The French Revolution, on the other hand, reintroduced democracy to a commercial world. This …
Berkeley, Ireland and Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History
Eighteenth-century Irish intellectual history has enjoyed a revival in recent years. New scholarly resources, such as the Hoppen edition of the papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society and the recently published Berkeley correspondence, have been fundamental to that revival. Since 1986 the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr has sponsored a complex conversation on the meaning and legacy of the eighteenth century in Irish hist…
Free Trade and Empire in the Anglo-Irish Commercial Propositions of 1785
William Pitt's 1785 proposal for a free trade area between Britain and Ireland attempted to use free trade as a mechanism of imperial integration. It was a response to the agitation for political reform in Ireland and followed the attainment of legislative independence in 1782. The proposal aimed at coordinating economic and fiscal policy between the kingdoms without imposing explicit political controls. This article establishes that the measure …
Politics and Provincial People: Sligo and Limerick, 1691-1761, by D.A. Fleming
David Fleming’s study of two counties in the most westerly region of the British Isles establishes the fact that, even at their periphery, the eighteenth-century kingdoms sustained intense political sociability. In the middle section of the book he identifies the various occasions at which the politically-inspired gathered: bonfires, progresses, assizes, elections, franchise ridings, election entertainments, military celebrations, anniversaries a…
Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
Atlantic history: A critical appraisal. Edited by Jack Green and Philip D Morgan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009 x + 371 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-532033-6 (£65.00 hardback)
Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
What was a sans-culotte? Michael Sonenscher's book reminds us that, before the phrase was used to refer to the popular revolutionaries of Paris, it had been used to designate a writer without a patron. The coinage derived from ironic jokes about Madame de Tencin's custom of presenting the wits that attended her salon with velvet breeches on New Year's Day. Properly attired, literary men were fit to take part in civilized salon culture, and to fee…
The Limits of Terror: The French Revolution, Rights and Democratic Transition
The French Revolution has ceased to be the paradigm case of progressive social revolution. Historians increasingly argue that the heart of the revolutionary experience was the Terror and that the Terror prefigured 20thcentury totalitarianism. This article contests that view and argues that totalitarianism is too blunt a category to distinguish between varying experiences of revolution and further questions if revolutionary outcomes are ideologica…
Botany and Provincial Enlightenment in Montpellier: Antoine Banal Père and Fils 1750-1800
The Dublin Society in Eighteenth-Century Irish Political Thought
Through an analysis of the debate between Charles Davenant in England, and Arthur Dobbs, Thomas Prior, and Samuel Madden in Ireland, it establishes that the founders saw the society as a response to Ireland's dependent status in the emerging British empire. The Dublin Society distinguished itself from other improving societies in the British Isles because it explicitly represented a new principle of sociality. The article describes the cultural o…
Material Culture, Economic Institutions and Peasant Revolution in Lower Languedoc 1770-1840
Journal Article Material Culture, Economic Institutions and Peasant Revolution in Lower Languedoc 1770–1840 Get access James Livesey James Livesey Trinity College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 182, Issue 1, February 2004, Pages 143–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/182.1.143 Published: 01 February 2004
The French Revolution and Empire: The Quest for a Civil Order
Journal Article The French Revolution and Empire: The Quest for a Civil Order Get access James Livesey James Livesey Trinity College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2003, Pages 335–337, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/17.3.335 Published: 01 September 2003
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill 1761-1805
1Trinity College Dublin Papermaking in Eighteenth‐Century France: Management, Labor and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill 1761–1805 Leonard N.Rosenband Baltimore, Md and LondonJohns Hopkins University Press 2000xvi + 210£31 0 8018 6392 9
Making Democracy in the French Revolution
Speaking the Nation: Radical Republicans and the Failure of Political Communication in 1848
Few of Marx's summary evaluations have been as successful as his dismissal of the revolution of February 1848 as only words.1 His aphorism characterizing the February revolution as a farcical reenactment of the Great French Revolution has acquired the status of a cliche and even historians such as Maurice Agulhon, who consciously distance themselves from Marx's explanatory categories, reproduce his attitudes to the February revolutionaries and th…
Agrarian Ideology and Commercial Republicanism in the French Revolution
Journal Article AGRARIAN IDEOLOGY AND COMMERCIAL REPUBLICANISM IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Get access James Livesey James Livesey Trinity CollegeDublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 157, Issue 1, November 1997, Pages 94–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/157.1.94 Published: 01 November 1997
The Dublin Society in Eighteenth-Century Irish Political Thought
Through an analysis of the debate between Charles Davenant in England, and Arthur Dobbs, Thomas Prior, and Samuel Madden in Ireland, it establishes that the founders saw the society as a response to Ireland's dependent status in the emerging British empire. The Dublin Society distinguished itself from other improving societies in the British Isles because it explicitly represented a new principle of sociality. The article describes the cultural o…
Free Trade and Empire in the Anglo-Irish Commercial Propositions of 1785
William Pitt's 1785 proposal for a free trade area between Britain and Ireland attempted to use free trade as a mechanism of imperial integration. It was a response to the agitation for political reform in Ireland and followed the attainment of legislative independence in 1782. The proposal aimed at coordinating economic and fiscal policy between the kingdoms without imposing explicit political controls. This article establishes that the measure …
Making Democracy in the French Revolution
Speaking the Nation: Radical Republicans and the Failure of Political Communication in 1848
Few of Marx's summary evaluations have been as successful as his dismissal of the revolution of February 1848 as only words.1 His aphorism characterizing the February revolution as a farcical reenactment of the Great French Revolution has acquired the status of a cliche and even historians such as Maurice Agulhon, who consciously distance themselves from Marx's explanatory categories, reproduce his attitudes to the February revolutionaries and th…
Agrarian Ideology and Commercial Republicanism in the French Revolution
Journal Article AGRARIAN IDEOLOGY AND COMMERCIAL REPUBLICANISM IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Get access James Livesey James Livesey Trinity CollegeDublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 157, Issue 1, November 1997, Pages 94–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/157.1.94 Published: 01 November 1997
Botany and Provincial Enlightenment in Montpellier: Antoine Banal Père and Fils 1750-1800
Speaking the Nation: Radical Republicans and the Failure of Political Communication in 1848
Few of Marx's summary evaluations have been as successful as his dismissal of the revolution of February 1848 as only words.1 His aphorism characterizing the February revolution as a farcical reenactment of the Great French Revolution has acquired the status of a cliche and even historians such as Maurice Agulhon, who consciously distance themselves from Marx's explanatory categories, reproduce his attitudes to the February revolutionaries and th…
Agrarian Ideology and Commercial Republicanism in the French Revolution
Journal Article AGRARIAN IDEOLOGY AND COMMERCIAL REPUBLICANISM IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Get access James Livesey James Livesey Trinity CollegeDublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 157, Issue 1, November 1997, Pages 94–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/157.1.94 Published: 01 November 1997
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill 1761-1805
1Trinity College Dublin Papermaking in Eighteenth‐Century France: Management, Labor and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill 1761–1805 Leonard N.Rosenband Baltimore, Md and LondonJohns Hopkins University Press 2000xvi + 210£31 0 8018 6392 9
Making Democracy in the French Revolution
The French Revolution and Empire: The Quest for a Civil Order
Journal Article The French Revolution and Empire: The Quest for a Civil Order Get access James Livesey James Livesey Trinity College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2003, Pages 335–337, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/17.3.335 Published: 01 September 2003
The Dublin Society in Eighteenth-Century Irish Political Thought
Through an analysis of the debate between Charles Davenant in England, and Arthur Dobbs, Thomas Prior, and Samuel Madden in Ireland, it establishes that the founders saw the society as a response to Ireland's dependent status in the emerging British empire. The Dublin Society distinguished itself from other improving societies in the British Isles because it explicitly represented a new principle of sociality. The article describes the cultural o…
Material Culture, Economic Institutions and Peasant Revolution in Lower Languedoc 1770-1840
Journal Article Material Culture, Economic Institutions and Peasant Revolution in Lower Languedoc 1770–1840 Get access James Livesey James Livesey Trinity College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 182, Issue 1, February 2004, Pages 143–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/182.1.143 Published: 01 February 2004
Botany and Provincial Enlightenment in Montpellier: Antoine Banal Père and Fils 1750-1800
Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
What was a sans-culotte? Michael Sonenscher's book reminds us that, before the phrase was used to refer to the popular revolutionaries of Paris, it had been used to designate a writer without a patron. The coinage derived from ironic jokes about Madame de Tencin's custom of presenting the wits that attended her salon with velvet breeches on New Year's Day. Properly attired, literary men were fit to take part in civilized salon culture, and to fee…
The Limits of Terror: The French Revolution, Rights and Democratic Transition
The French Revolution has ceased to be the paradigm case of progressive social revolution. Historians increasingly argue that the heart of the revolutionary experience was the Terror and that the Terror prefigured 20thcentury totalitarianism. This article contests that view and argues that totalitarianism is too blunt a category to distinguish between varying experiences of revolution and further questions if revolutionary outcomes are ideologica…
Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
Atlantic history: A critical appraisal. Edited by Jack Green and Philip D Morgan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009 x + 371 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-532033-6 (£65.00 hardback)
Politics and Provincial People: Sligo and Limerick, 1691-1761, by D.A. Fleming
David Fleming’s study of two counties in the most westerly region of the British Isles establishes the fact that, even at their periphery, the eighteenth-century kingdoms sustained intense political sociability. In the middle section of the book he identifies the various occasions at which the politically-inspired gathered: bonfires, progresses, assizes, elections, franchise ridings, election entertainments, military celebrations, anniversaries a…
Free Trade and Empire in the Anglo-Irish Commercial Propositions of 1785
William Pitt's 1785 proposal for a free trade area between Britain and Ireland attempted to use free trade as a mechanism of imperial integration. It was a response to the agitation for political reform in Ireland and followed the attainment of legislative independence in 1782. The proposal aimed at coordinating economic and fiscal policy between the kingdoms without imposing explicit political controls. This article establishes that the measure …
Berkeley, Ireland and Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History
Eighteenth-century Irish intellectual history has enjoyed a revival in recent years. New scholarly resources, such as the Hoppen edition of the papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society and the recently published Berkeley correspondence, have been fundamental to that revival. Since 1986 the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr has sponsored a complex conversation on the meaning and legacy of the eighteenth century in Irish hist…
James T. Kloppenberg. Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
Accounting for democracy is difficult; accounting for democratic thought, even more so. Intellectual historians have established that there was no sustained tradition of democratic thought in the early modern period. Civic humanism, monarchical sovereignty, and natural jurisprudence were among the many traditions of European political thought with well-established canons and communities of interpretation for which democracy existed only as an int…
Anna Plassart. The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
The French Revolution and the Scottish Enlightenment are two of the most challenging areas of research in eighteenth-century history; taking them on together is particularly brave. The Scottish Enlightenment was too diverse to be reduced to any particular view on commercial society, but skeptics, critics, and enthusiasts were all focused on that novelty. The French Revolution, on the other hand, reintroduced democracy to a commercial world. This …
An Alternative Genealogy for Global Capitalism: The Rhine Becomes an Inland Sea, 1792–1815
This article argues that the change that opened the door to a capitalist world, one dominated by capitalist norms, was the alteration to the boundary between economic and public power that followed the era of the democratic revolution and in particular the French Revolution. There is consensus of the institutional creativity fostered by the resistance to Louis XIV. The role of the French Revolution and the Congress settlement in fostering capital…
Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830
This book explores the subtle transformation of the coastal province of the Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Mining a wealth of archival sources, the book unveils how provincial elites and peasant households unwittingly created new practices. Managing local political institutions, establishing new credit systems, building networks of natural historians, and introducing new plants and farm machinery to the region opened up the inhabitants of t…
Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830
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