K Steven Vincent

Biographic Data

ID	535581
NAME	K Steven Vincent
GIVEN NAMES	K Steven
FAMILY NAME	Vincent
SIGNATURE	VINCENT K S
AFFILIATIONS	North Carolina State University
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	58
TOTAL CITATIONS	58
AUTHOR COUNT	58
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	3

The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville, by Olivier Zunz
Open AccessK Steven VincentARTICLEThe English Historical Review2025
The Making of an Austrian Economic Theorist
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2024References: 4
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) remains a controversial figure, applauded by those who support the late-twentieth-century turn to neoliberalism and criticized by those who see him as the poster-boy of
Travelling with Alexis de Tocqueville
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2024References: 7
The writings of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) need little introduction. De la Démocratie en Amérique, published almost two centuries ago, is still praised by historians, political theorists, an
Voices from the Periphery: The Compelling History of the cepalinos and dependentistas
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2023
The Curious Case of the 'French Marx
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2021References: 1
Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871–1885 by Julia Nicholls is an ambitious book about the thought of the revolutionary Left in France during the fifteen years after the defeat of th
Elie Halevy: Republican Liberalism Confronts the Era of Tyranny
K Steven VincentBOOKElie Halevy2020
In this densely contextualized biography, K. Steven Vincent describes how Élie Halévy (1870-1937), one of the most respected and influential intellectuals of the French Third Republic, confronted the Dreyfus Affair, World War I, and the rise of interwar totalitarianism while defending a distinctively French version of liberalism.
Élie Halévy and French socialist liberalism
K Steven VincentARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2018Cited by: 1
Élie Halévy (1870–1937) is best known in the Anglo-American world for his volumes on British Utilitarianism and his multi-volume history of England during the nineteenth century. His reputation in his native France, however, is associated with his directing role of the Revue de métaphysique et de morale and for his lectures on the history of European socialism, given every other year at the École libre des sciences politiques between 1902 and 193…
Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2018
"Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes." The European Legacy, 23(1-2), pp. 217–218
Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2017
Twenty-sixteen was the centenary of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin, and it is perhaps fitting that we should have a new biography of one of the iconic figures of this event, Constance Markievicz (1
The Enlightenment: History of an Idea
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2017
Vincenzo Ferrone, professor of history at the University of Turin, has written an impressive defense of the Enlightenment against the charges of philosophers and postmodern critics. Arguing that th
A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2017
Ludovic Frobert and George Sheridan. Le Solitaire du ravin: Pierre Charnier (1795–1857), canut lyonnais et prud’homme tisseur
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016
Pierre Charnier was a silk worker from Lyon, a canut, who was a prominent activist in the industry from the 1820s until his death in 1857. He was a chef d’atelier; one of the organizers of the first mutualist society among Lyon weavers during the late 1820s; a long-time representative of workers in the conseil des prud’hommes; active during the insurrections of 1831, 1834, and 1849; and a vocal advocate for the organization of workers and the sil…
Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-Century France
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2016
Royal censors in France during the eighteenth century were responsible for examining works that were to be published and/or distributed in France, and as such were charged with upholding the politi
Romantic Catholics: France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2016
A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2015
Equality in the Age of Singularity
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2015
Natural Right and the Ideology of the Terror
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2014
Elie Halevy on England and the English
Open AccessK Steven VincentARTICLEModern Intellectual History2014Cited by: 1References: 2
Elie Halévy became famous as a historian of England in the years before World War I, due to his lectures on England at the Ecole libre des sciences politiques, his three-volume analysis of utilitarianism published between 1901 and 1904, a 1906 article on the birth of Methodism, and the 1912 book L’Angleterre en 1815 . In these last two works he argued—in what became known as the Halévy thesis—that English Protestantism, and especially the evangel…
Forum: Elie Halevy, French Liberalism, and the Politics of the Third Republic Introduction
Open AccessK Steven VincentARTICLEModern Intellectual History2014Cited by: 1References: 1
The history of French liberalism is undergoing a renaissance. For much of the twentieth century, it was viewed with disdain, as insufficiently “engaged,” as too tentative in its demands for social reform, as overly optimistic concerning the progress of reason and science. Scholarship during the past three decades has challenged these views, though it is notable that there is still, to my knowledge, no general history of French liberalism that goe…
Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria. By Osama W. Abi-Mershed
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2013
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010), xii + 328 pp. $60.00 cloth. In much of the literature devoted to the French colonizing endeavors in Algeria, there is a tendency to write about nine
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2013
"The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History." The European Legacy, 18(4), pp. 532–533
The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2013
The Liberalism of Sismondi and Constant
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2013
Lessons from America: Liberal French Nobles in Exile, 1793-1798. By Doina Pasca Harsanyi
K Steven VincentARTICLEThe European Legacy2012
Understanding Local Policymaking: Policy Elites' Perceptions of Local Agenda Setting and Alternative Policy Selection
Open AccessXinsheng Liu, Eric Lindquist et al.ARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal2010Cited by: 41References: 34
Despite the increasing interest in policy agenda research in recent years, very few studies have focused their attention on the relevant processes at the local level. Drawing on agenda‐setting research, particularly Kingdon's multiple‐streams framework, this study examines the key forces and factors, as well as their relative importance, in local agenda setting, problem identification, and alternative policy selection. Data are collected from 271…

Understanding Local Policymaking: Policy Elites' Perceptions of Local Agenda Setting and Alternative Policy Selection
Open AccessXinsheng Liu, Eric Lindquist et al.ARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal2010Cited by: 41References: 34
Despite the increasing interest in policy agenda research in recent years, very few studies have focused their attention on the relevant processes at the local level. Drawing on agenda‐setting research, particularly Kingdon's multiple‐streams framework, this study examines the key forces and factors, as well as their relative importance, in local agenda setting, problem identification, and alternative policy selection. Data are collected from 271…
Benjamin Constant, the French Revolution, and the Origins of French Romantic Liberalism
K Steven VincentARTICLEFrench Historical Studies2000Cited by: 5
Research Article| October 01 2000 Benjamin Constant, the French Revolution, and the Origins of French Romantic Liberalism K. Steven Vincent K. Steven Vincent Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2000) 23 (4): 607–637. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-23-4-607 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation K. Steven Vincent; Benjamin Constant, the F…
Interpreting Georges Sorel: Defender of virtue or apostle of violence
K Steven VincentARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1990Cited by: 3References: 12
(1990). Interpreting Georges Sorel: Defender of virtue or apostle of violence? History of European Ideas: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 239-257
The Republican Moment(s) in Modern France
Open AccessK Steven VincentARTICLEEuropean Journal of Political…2007Cited by: 2
Élie Halévy and French socialist liberalism
K Steven VincentARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2018Cited by: 1
Élie Halévy (1870–1937) is best known in the Anglo-American world for his volumes on British Utilitarianism and his multi-volume history of England during the nineteenth century. His reputation in his native France, however, is associated with his directing role of the Revue de métaphysique et de morale and for his lectures on the history of European socialism, given every other year at the École libre des sciences politiques between 1902 and 193…
Elie Halevy on England and the English
Open AccessK Steven VincentARTICLEModern Intellectual History2014Cited by: 1References: 2
Elie Halévy became famous as a historian of England in the years before World War I, due to his lectures on England at the Ecole libre des sciences politiques, his three-volume analysis of utilitarianism published between 1901 and 1904, a 1906 article on the birth of Methodism, and the 1912 book L’Angleterre en 1815 . In these last two works he argued—in what became known as the Halévy thesis—that English Protestantism, and especially the evangel…
Forum: Elie Halevy, French Liberalism, and the Politics of the Third Republic Introduction
Open AccessK Steven VincentARTICLEModern Intellectual History2014Cited by: 1References: 1
The history of French liberalism is undergoing a renaissance. For much of the twentieth century, it was viewed with disdain, as insufficiently “engaged,” as too tentative in its demands for social reform, as overly optimistic concerning the progress of reason and science. Scholarship during the past three decades has challenged these views, though it is notable that there is still, to my knowledge, no general history of French liberalism that goe…
Elite Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century France: Salons, Sociability, and the Self
Open AccessK Steven VincentARTICLEModern Intellectual History2007Cited by: 1
The cultural world of French elites was profoundly shaken by the long sequence of events we now refer to as the French Revolution. The legal, political, and social world in which elites moved was transformed by successive revolutionary regimes and, more generally, by what Benjamin Constant called “the torrent” of change that began with the Revolution in 1789. Individuals experienced excitement, hope, and enthusiasm, but also suffered trauma, inse…
Benjamin Constant, the French revolution, and the problem of modern character
K Steven VincentARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2004Cited by: 1
This article examines Constant's analysis of character during the French Revolution. During the late-1790s, Constant declared himself a “democrat”, but he worried that the Revolution was reinforcing character traits in France that would undermine stable liberal politics. He was especially concerned that the “revolutionary torrent” [his phrase] had unleashed violent passions that led to fanaticism, rebelliousness, and the search for vengeance. And…
The French Revolution and the birth of modernity
K Steven VincentARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1991Cited by: 1
The French Revolution and the birth of modernity." History of European Ideas, 13(6), pp. 847–848
Marxism and the french Left: Studies on labour and politics in france, 1830–1981
K Steven VincentARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1988Cited by: 1
(1988). Marxism and the french Left: Studies on labour and politics in france, 1830–1981. History of European Ideas: Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 597-600