Jacob Soll
Biographic Data
| ID | 972609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Soll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Soll |
| SIGNATURE | SOLL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. By Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
Hannah Farber. Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Journal Article Hannah Farber. Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding. Get access Hannah Farber. Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding. Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 352. Cloth $34.95. Jacob Soll Jacob Soll University of Southern California, US Email: soll@usc.…
David Wootton. Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
Economics has, recently, come to the fore of historical inquiry. So much so that venerable intellectual historians who once remained in the confines of the history of politics and science are examining economic questions. The Cambridge School of the history of ideas, in particular, often relegated the history of economic thought to a lower stratum, which can be seen in the paucity of Ideas in Context books on the topic. But then, David Wootton wa…
Florence After the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737–1790
Introduction: Tuscany and Enlightenment in the Atlantic World Corey Tazzara and Paula Findlen Part I: The Politics of Knowledge in Enlightenment Tuscany 1. The Enlightenment at Work: Ideology, Reform, and a Blueprint for a Constitution Renato Pasta 2. The Politics of Libraries Under the Habsburg-Lorraines Emmanuelle Chapron 3. The Economics of Healthcare and the Tuscan Medical Enlightenment Elizabeth W. Mellyn 4. From the Body to the Body Politic…
Epilogue
This chapter situates Peter Leopold and his regime within the tradition of Catholic Enlightenment. It traces a non-radical and monarchical movement that was perhaps the most widely implemented program in eighteenth century Europe. Among the hallmarks of this Enlightenment were the cultivation of a more rational Christianity, the diffusion of science and scholarship, and the development of more efficient social and political institutions. Ultimate…
Florence after the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790
From Virtue to Surplus
This article explains how, during the time of the French Revolution, the financial language of accounting became part of modern political discourse with surpluses representing virtue, and deficits, failure
The Reception of The Prince 1513-1700, or Why We Understand Machiavelli the Way We Do
This article traces the reception of Machiavelli's The Prince amongst political writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At different times, The Prince was considered a manual for tyrants, and also a radical book of political criticism. Much of the evolution of how readers perceived the book took place in discussions about Machiavelli's revolutionary idea of practical prudence, in particular, chapter 18 of The Prince. Following debates…
Droit et justice dans l'Europe de la Renaissance
J. P. Pittion and Stéphan Geonget, eds. Droit et justice dans l'Europe de la Renaissance. Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance 17: Le Savoir de Mantice. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2009. 374 pp. index. append. illus. 荤70. ISBN: 978–2–7453–1907–4. - Volume 63 Issue 2
From Note‐Taking to Data Banks: Personal and Institutional Information Management in Early Modern Europe
Note‐takers in early modern Europe mixed a number of scribal practices. Not only did they write down extracts of texts, they also collected data from observation or from accounting. Practices such as commonplacing were part of sometimes communal, rather informal personal practices that laid the foundations for personal diaries. Other note‐taking was prescriptive, fact‐establishing technical data entry. Yet both the personal, sentimental and techn…
Du bien commun au mal nécessaire: Tyrannies, assassinats politiques, et souveraineté en Italie, vers 1470–vers 1600
Renaud Villard. Du bien commun au mal nécessaire: Tyrannies, assassinats politiques, et souveraineté en Italie, vers 1470–vers 1600. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 323. Rome: École française de Rome, 2008. viii+912 pp. index. bibl. €93. ISBN: 978–2–7283–0800–2. - Volume 62 Issue 3
Accounting for Government: Holland and the Rise of Political Economy in Seventeenth-Century Europe
In the 1650s, political administrators across Europe began adopting accounting strategies to manage government. Although the method of double-entry book-keeping emerged during the Middle Ages and spread from Italy during the Renaissance, governments were slow to adopt it. Inspired by the Dutch precedent, however, English, French, German, and Russian rulers and ministers looked to accounting to build new military industrial complexes. This general…
The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System
Jean-Baptiste Colbert saw governance of the state not as the inherent ability of the king, but as a form of mechanical mastery of subjects such as medieval legal history, physics, navigation, and the price lists of nails, sails, and gunpowder
Le sentiment national dans l'Europe méridionale aux XVI e et XVII e siècles (France, Espagne, Italie)
Alain Tallon, ed. Le sentiment national dans l'Europe méridionale aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (France, Espagne, Italie). Collection de la Casa de Velázquez 97. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2007. xviii + 368 pp. illus. tbls. €27. ISBN: 978–84–95555–93–9. - Volume 61 Issue 4
Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Antiquary and the Information State: Colbert's Archives, Secret Histories, and the Affair of the Regale , 1663-1682
Research Article| February 01 2008 The Antiquary and the Information State: Colbert's Archives, Secret Histories, and the Affair of the Régale, 1663-1682 Jacob Soll Jacob Soll Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2008) 31 (1): 3–28. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2007-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jacob Soll; The Antiquary an…
How to manage an information state: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s archives and the education of his son
Introduction: The Uses of Historical Evidence in Early Modern Europe
A leading figure at Cambridge University after World War II, Herbert Butterfield seems an unlikely forerunner of the kind of cultural history that is practiced today. Yet Butterfield was a pioneer. He saw the origins of modern historical consciousness in the scholarly practices of the Renaissance. These practices, he maintained, were a significant part of the slow shift to rationalist thinking that occurred between the fifteenth and eighteenth ce…
Empirical History and the Transformation of Political Criticism in France from Bodin to Bayle
This article shows how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century arguments about historical evidence and elite humanist traditions of textual criticism and historical method evolved into the secular political theory of the eighteenth century. It shows how the French crown sponsored scholars who worked on empirical, source-based history as a tool for political prudence, but as this critical historical methodology became public, the crown realized it coul…
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
Silverman Lisa, Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xv + 264 pp. 20 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-75753-6 (cl), 0-226-75754-4 (pbk). - Volume 55 Issue 4
Healing the Body Politic: French Royal Doctors, History, and the Birth of a Nation 1560-1634
This article examines the role played by royal doctors in forming an empirical political science in France at the end of the sixteenth century. Bringing with them took from the Galenic tradition, doctors such as Rodolphe Le Maistre, Abraham-Nicolas de La Framboisière, and Jean Héroard doubled as political counselors. They not only looked for ways to heal the king's body, they also looked for ways to heal and regulate the body of the nation. Their…
Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in France and the Netherlands 1555-1585
Europe's two most bitter conflicts of the second half of the sixteenth century, the French Wars of Religion and the Revolt of the Netherlands, display evident similarities in their origins and course. In this volume these similarities as well as the differences between the two conflicts are systematically analyzed
Amelot de La Houssaye (1634-1706) Annotates Tacitus
Thus wrote Nicolas-Abraham Amelot de La Houssaye in the preface of his book, Tibère: Discours politiques sur Tacite (Paris: chez Frédéric Léonard, 1684). He was describing what has become known as the Tacitist movement of political theory, based on the work of the Roman historian Tacitus, which began in the 1580s and lasted until the French Revolution. 2 The practice of translating, commenting [End Page 167] on, or writing like Tacitus began in e…
From Note‐Taking to Data Banks: Personal and Institutional Information Management in Early Modern Europe
Note‐takers in early modern Europe mixed a number of scribal practices. Not only did they write down extracts of texts, they also collected data from observation or from accounting. Practices such as commonplacing were part of sometimes communal, rather informal personal practices that laid the foundations for personal diaries. Other note‐taking was prescriptive, fact‐establishing technical data entry. Yet both the personal, sentimental and techn…
Healing the Body Politic: French Royal Doctors, History, and the Birth of a Nation 1560-1634
This article examines the role played by royal doctors in forming an empirical political science in France at the end of the sixteenth century. Bringing with them took from the Galenic tradition, doctors such as Rodolphe Le Maistre, Abraham-Nicolas de La Framboisière, and Jean Héroard doubled as political counselors. They not only looked for ways to heal the king's body, they also looked for ways to heal and regulate the body of the nation. Their…
Accounting for Government: Holland and the Rise of Political Economy in Seventeenth-Century Europe
In the 1650s, political administrators across Europe began adopting accounting strategies to manage government. Although the method of double-entry book-keeping emerged during the Middle Ages and spread from Italy during the Renaissance, governments were slow to adopt it. Inspired by the Dutch precedent, however, English, French, German, and Russian rulers and ministers looked to accounting to build new military industrial complexes. This general…
The Antiquary and the Information State: Colbert's Archives, Secret Histories, and the Affair of the Regale , 1663-1682
Research Article| February 01 2008 The Antiquary and the Information State: Colbert's Archives, Secret Histories, and the Affair of the Régale, 1663-1682 Jacob Soll Jacob Soll Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2008) 31 (1): 3–28. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2007-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jacob Soll; The Antiquary an…
How to manage an information state: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s archives and the education of his son
Le sentiment national dans l'Europe méridionale aux XVI e et XVII e siècles (France, Espagne, Italie)
Alain Tallon, ed. Le sentiment national dans l'Europe méridionale aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (France, Espagne, Italie). Collection de la Casa de Velázquez 97. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2007. xviii + 368 pp. illus. tbls. €27. ISBN: 978–84–95555–93–9. - Volume 61 Issue 4
Introduction: The Uses of Historical Evidence in Early Modern Europe
A leading figure at Cambridge University after World War II, Herbert Butterfield seems an unlikely forerunner of the kind of cultural history that is practiced today. Yet Butterfield was a pioneer. He saw the origins of modern historical consciousness in the scholarly practices of the Renaissance. These practices, he maintained, were a significant part of the slow shift to rationalist thinking that occurred between the fifteenth and eighteenth ce…
Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in France and the Netherlands 1555-1585
Europe's two most bitter conflicts of the second half of the sixteenth century, the French Wars of Religion and the Revolt of the Netherlands, display evident similarities in their origins and course. In this volume these similarities as well as the differences between the two conflicts are systematically analyzed
Amelot de La Houssaye (1634-1706) Annotates Tacitus
Thus wrote Nicolas-Abraham Amelot de La Houssaye in the preface of his book, Tibère: Discours politiques sur Tacite (Paris: chez Frédéric Léonard, 1684). He was describing what has become known as the Tacitist movement of political theory, based on the work of the Roman historian Tacitus, which began in the 1580s and lasted until the French Revolution. 2 The practice of translating, commenting [End Page 167] on, or writing like Tacitus began in e…
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
Silverman Lisa, Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xv + 264 pp. 20 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-75753-6 (cl), 0-226-75754-4 (pbk). - Volume 55 Issue 4
Healing the Body Politic: French Royal Doctors, History, and the Birth of a Nation 1560-1634
This article examines the role played by royal doctors in forming an empirical political science in France at the end of the sixteenth century. Bringing with them took from the Galenic tradition, doctors such as Rodolphe Le Maistre, Abraham-Nicolas de La Framboisière, and Jean Héroard doubled as political counselors. They not only looked for ways to heal the king's body, they also looked for ways to heal and regulate the body of the nation. Their…
Introduction: The Uses of Historical Evidence in Early Modern Europe
A leading figure at Cambridge University after World War II, Herbert Butterfield seems an unlikely forerunner of the kind of cultural history that is practiced today. Yet Butterfield was a pioneer. He saw the origins of modern historical consciousness in the scholarly practices of the Renaissance. These practices, he maintained, were a significant part of the slow shift to rationalist thinking that occurred between the fifteenth and eighteenth ce…
Empirical History and the Transformation of Political Criticism in France from Bodin to Bayle
This article shows how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century arguments about historical evidence and elite humanist traditions of textual criticism and historical method evolved into the secular political theory of the eighteenth century. It shows how the French crown sponsored scholars who worked on empirical, source-based history as a tool for political prudence, but as this critical historical methodology became public, the crown realized it coul…
How to manage an information state: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s archives and the education of his son
Le sentiment national dans l'Europe méridionale aux XVI e et XVII e siècles (France, Espagne, Italie)
Alain Tallon, ed. Le sentiment national dans l'Europe méridionale aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (France, Espagne, Italie). Collection de la Casa de Velázquez 97. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2007. xviii + 368 pp. illus. tbls. €27. ISBN: 978–84–95555–93–9. - Volume 61 Issue 4
Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Antiquary and the Information State: Colbert's Archives, Secret Histories, and the Affair of the Regale , 1663-1682
Research Article| February 01 2008 The Antiquary and the Information State: Colbert's Archives, Secret Histories, and the Affair of the Régale, 1663-1682 Jacob Soll Jacob Soll Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2008) 31 (1): 3–28. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2007-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jacob Soll; The Antiquary an…
Du bien commun au mal nécessaire: Tyrannies, assassinats politiques, et souveraineté en Italie, vers 1470–vers 1600
Renaud Villard. Du bien commun au mal nécessaire: Tyrannies, assassinats politiques, et souveraineté en Italie, vers 1470–vers 1600. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 323. Rome: École française de Rome, 2008. viii+912 pp. index. bibl. €93. ISBN: 978–2–7283–0800–2. - Volume 62 Issue 3
Accounting for Government: Holland and the Rise of Political Economy in Seventeenth-Century Europe
In the 1650s, political administrators across Europe began adopting accounting strategies to manage government. Although the method of double-entry book-keeping emerged during the Middle Ages and spread from Italy during the Renaissance, governments were slow to adopt it. Inspired by the Dutch precedent, however, English, French, German, and Russian rulers and ministers looked to accounting to build new military industrial complexes. This general…
The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System
Jean-Baptiste Colbert saw governance of the state not as the inherent ability of the king, but as a form of mechanical mastery of subjects such as medieval legal history, physics, navigation, and the price lists of nails, sails, and gunpowder
Droit et justice dans l'Europe de la Renaissance
J. P. Pittion and Stéphan Geonget, eds. Droit et justice dans l'Europe de la Renaissance. Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance 17: Le Savoir de Mantice. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2009. 374 pp. index. append. illus. 荤70. ISBN: 978–2–7453–1907–4. - Volume 63 Issue 2
From Note‐Taking to Data Banks: Personal and Institutional Information Management in Early Modern Europe
Note‐takers in early modern Europe mixed a number of scribal practices. Not only did they write down extracts of texts, they also collected data from observation or from accounting. Practices such as commonplacing were part of sometimes communal, rather informal personal practices that laid the foundations for personal diaries. Other note‐taking was prescriptive, fact‐establishing technical data entry. Yet both the personal, sentimental and techn…
The Reception of The Prince 1513-1700, or Why We Understand Machiavelli the Way We Do
This article traces the reception of Machiavelli's The Prince amongst political writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At different times, The Prince was considered a manual for tyrants, and also a radical book of political criticism. Much of the evolution of how readers perceived the book took place in discussions about Machiavelli's revolutionary idea of practical prudence, in particular, chapter 18 of The Prince. Following debates…
From Virtue to Surplus
This article explains how, during the time of the French Revolution, the financial language of accounting became part of modern political discourse with surpluses representing virtue, and deficits, failure
Florence After the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737–1790
Introduction: Tuscany and Enlightenment in the Atlantic World Corey Tazzara and Paula Findlen Part I: The Politics of Knowledge in Enlightenment Tuscany 1. The Enlightenment at Work: Ideology, Reform, and a Blueprint for a Constitution Renato Pasta 2. The Politics of Libraries Under the Habsburg-Lorraines Emmanuelle Chapron 3. The Economics of Healthcare and the Tuscan Medical Enlightenment Elizabeth W. Mellyn 4. From the Body to the Body Politic…
Epilogue
This chapter situates Peter Leopold and his regime within the tradition of Catholic Enlightenment. It traces a non-radical and monarchical movement that was perhaps the most widely implemented program in eighteenth century Europe. Among the hallmarks of this Enlightenment were the cultivation of a more rational Christianity, the diffusion of science and scholarship, and the development of more efficient social and political institutions. Ultimate…
Florence after the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790
David Wootton. Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
Economics has, recently, come to the fore of historical inquiry. So much so that venerable intellectual historians who once remained in the confines of the history of politics and science are examining economic questions. The Cambridge School of the history of ideas, in particular, often relegated the history of economic thought to a lower stratum, which can be seen in the paucity of Ideas in Context books on the topic. But then, David Wootton wa…
Hannah Farber. Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Journal Article Hannah Farber. Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding. Get access Hannah Farber. Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding. Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 352. Cloth $34.95. Jacob Soll Jacob Soll University of Southern California, US Email: soll@usc.…
The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. By Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
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