JOHN SHOVLIN History Department New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 [email protected] 212-998-8
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JOHN SHOVLIN History Department New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 [email protected] 212-998-8639 ACADEMIC POSITIONS New York University, History Department, Associate Professor, 2008–present; Assistant Professor, 2005–08. Harvard University, Center for European Studies, Visiting Scholar, 2009–10. Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), Paris, Visiting Scholar, associated with project “Production et diffusion des savoirs économiques, 1750-1950,” fall 2006. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, History Department, Associate Professor, 2004–05; Assistant Professor, 1998–2004; lecturer, 1997–98. EDUCATION Ph.D., in history, with distinction, University of Chicago, 1998. Thesis: “Luxury, Political Economy, and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth- Century France.” Advised by William H. Sewell, Jr., Jan E. Goldstein, and Colin Lucas. M.A., in history, University of Chicago, 1992. A.B., summa cum laude, concentration in history, Harvard University, 1991. Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for undergraduate honors thesis, May 1991. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2015–16. Prix Brives Cazes, Académie Nationale des Sciences Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux, awarded for the best work on Bordeaux’s regional history, 2014. Humanities Initiative Grant, New York University, 2012–13. Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Visiting Scholar, 2009–10. Remarque Institute Faculty Fellow, New York University, spring 2007. Visiting Scholar, Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), Paris, associated with project “Production et diffusion des savoirs économiques, 1750-1950,” fall 2006. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Faculty Research Grant, 1998–02. National Endowment for the Humanities, summer fellowship, 2001. Andrew W. Mellon dissertation write-up fellowship, 1996–97. Shovlin / 2 SSRC/ACLS dissertation research fellowship, 1995–96. Distinction awarded in Ph.D. field examinations, University of Chicago, October 1993. Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1991–95. Andrew W. Mellon summer dissertation research fellowship, 1994. Chicago Group on Modern France summer dissertation research fellowship, 1994. Thomas T. Hoopes Prize: Awarded for senior undergraduate honors thesis, “Religion, Culture, and Nationalism: Pilgrimage in Ireland, 1800 - 1921,” May 1991. Phi Beta Kappa: Harvard College Chapter, June 1991. Center for European Studies, Harvard University, summer research fellowship, 1990. PUBLICATIONS Books Monographs The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism and the Origins of the French Revolution (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006) [paperback 2007]. Documentary editing projects The Amity Papers, 1690: The Siege of Limerick and Franco-Irish Mercantile Networks, co-edited with Thomas Truxes for the British Academy’s Records of Social and Economic History series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). The Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad, co-edited with Thomas Truxes and Louis Cullen for the British Academy’s Records of Social and Economic History series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). Winner of the Prix Brives-Cazes (2014) awarded by the Académie Nationale des Sciences Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. Current book project Commerce not Conquest: Political Economy, Capitalism, and Franco-British Global Rivalry, 1688–1788 Capitalism shaped international and global politics in the century before the French Revolution in part through the efforts of officials and merchants to remake the Franco-British rivalry on more peaceful, if still ruthlessly competitive lines. Commerce not Conquest explores moments in the Franco-British relationship when actors on both sides sought agreements to apportion commercial access to the non-European world, to neutralize the Indian Ocean or Spanish America from European wars, or to re-establish free trade between France and Britain. As surely as wars for trade, or the “primitive accumulation” of slavery and empire, this quest to avert conflict expressed a capitalist logic. Faced with a series of global wars for trade and empire, the costs of protecting distant commerce threatened to devour the profits of trade. Public debt and higher taxes menaced economic competitiveness. It was as efforts to escape this predicament that we must view repeated initiatives to change the dynamic of the Franco-British relationship. The dilemmas of the trading state were grasped and debated in the medium of political economy. Tracing this discourse though diplomatic memoranda, merchant papers, and Shovlin / 3 the archives of the chartered trading companies, Commerce not Conquest frames a new history of political economy grounded in the practical challenges of managing global politics. The idea of free trade in particular emerges transformed. Free trade ideas proliferated from the 1690s, and appealed to merchants and officials not as a means to increase economic efficiency but as a solution to problems of regulating competition between commercial states—above all redistributing economic power to avert the threat that any one state might achieve hegemony. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles “Jealousy of Credit: John Law’s ‘System’ and the Geopolitics of Financial Revolution,” Journal of Modern History 88 (June 2016): 275–305. “Selling American Empire on the Eve of the Seven Years War: The French Propaganda Campaign of 1755–1756,” Past & Present 206 (2010): 121–49. “Emulation in Eighteenth-Century French Economic Thought,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 36, no. 2 (2003): 224–30. “The Cultural Politics of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century France,” French Historical Studies 23, no. 4 (2000): 673–701. “Toward a Reinterpretation of Revolutionary Anti-Nobilism: The Political Economy of Honor in the Old Regime,” Journal of Modern History 72, no. 1 (2000): 35–66. “Pilgrimage and the Construction of Irish National Identity,” Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 9 (1991): 59–76. Essays in edited collections « Les compagnies de commerce française et britannique au XVIIIe siècle : rivalités et accommodements » Une diplomatie des lointains : la France face à la mondialisation des rivalités internationales, XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles, ed. Eric Schnakenbourg et François Ternat (Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, forthcoming). « Lumières » Dictionnaire de la civilisation européenne, ed. Daniel Roche et Christophe Charle (Arles: Éditions Actes Sud, forthcoming). “Commerce, not Conquest: Political Economic Thought in the French Indies Company, 1719– 1769,” in The Legitimacy of Power: New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, ed. Robert Fredona and Sophus Reinert (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). “Securing Asian Trade: Treaty Negotiations between the French and English East India Companies, 1753–1755,” in The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century: Balance of Power, Balance of Trade, ed. Antonella Alimento and Koen Stapelbroek (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 267–93. “War and Peace: Trade, International Politics, and Political Economy,” in Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and its Empire, ed. Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 305–27. “The Society of Brittany and the Irish Economic Model: International Competition and the Politics of Provincial Development,” The Rise of Economic Societies in the Eighteenth Century: Patriotic Reform in Europe and North America, ed. Koen Stapelbroek and Jani Marjanen (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 73–95. Shovlin / 4 “War, Diplomacy and Faction,” in The Saint-Aubin Livre de caricatures: Drawing Satire in Eighteenth- Century Paris, ed. Juliet Carey, Colin Jones, and Emily Richardson (Oxford: SVEC, 2012), 95–116. “Rethinking Enlightened Reform in a French Context,” in Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies c. 1750-1830, ed. Gabriel Paquette (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), 47–62. “Hume’s Political Discourses and the French Luxury Debate,” in David Hume’s Political Economy, ed. Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind (New York: Routledge, 2008), 203–22. “Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750-1789,” in The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches, ed. Jay M. Smith (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), 111–39. Essays in reference works “Nobility,” in Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime, ed. William Doyle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 111–26. “The Physiocrats and Physiocracy,” in Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, ed., Jonathan Dewald (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004). Book Reviews Paul Cheney, Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue (Chicago, 2017), forthcoming in Social History. Jeff Horn, Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650–1820 (Cambridge, 2015), in Canadian Journal of History/Annales candiennes d’histoire 52, no. 2 (2017), 333–35. Tyler Beck Goodspeed, Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772 (Cambridge, Mass., 2016), in Business History Review 90, no. 4 (2016), 808–10. Anthony Page. Britain and the Seventy Years War, 1744–1815: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire. (Basingstoke, 2015), in Journal of British Studies 55, no. 1 (2016): 234–35. Guy Rowlands, Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV’s France (Basingstoke,