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Faculty ProfileDr. Jeff Horn
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Research and Scholarly Interests:Modern and early-modern French and western European history in the age of Revolution (1750-1850), especially the development of modern political culture and the meaning and impact of industrial society. History of elections. History of industrialization. History of science and technology. Currently, Horn is beginning work on a new project entitled “the Privilege of Liberty” which explores how exemptions from taxes and duties were used to support industrial development in eighteenth-century France. Publications:Horn's book "Qui parle pour la nation?" Les élections et les élus de la Champagne méridionale, 1765-1830 was published in French by the Société des études robespierristes in 2004. His second book: The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830 was published by MIT Press in October 2006. A reference/textbook: The Industrial Revolution appeared in April 2007 with Greenwood Press as the initial offering in their new series – Milestones in Business History. In 2008, an edited collection (with Leonard N. Rosenband and Merritt Roe Smith) will appear with MIT Press entitled Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution. Recent articles include: “Machine-breaking and the ‘Threat from Below’ in Great Britain and France during the early Industrial Revolution,” in Brett Bowden and Michael T. Davis, eds., Riot: Resistance and Rebellion in Europe, 1381 to the Present (Brisbane: the University of Queensland Press, 2008), forthcoming and “La reception normand des négociations commerciales avec l’Angleterre 1801-2,” in Jean-Pierre Jessenne and Renaud Morieux, eds., Le négoce de la paix. Les nations et les traités franco-britanniques (1713-1802)(Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2007), forthcoming, “« Mille fusils par jour » : l’économie politique de la production militaire à Paris durant l’ère de la Terreur,” in Michel Biard, ed., Les politiques de la Terreur (Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2008), forthcoming, and “The Privilege of Liberty: Challenging the Society of Orders,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the 2007 Annual Meeting 35, forthcoming. Previous articles include: "Machine-breaking in England and France during the Age of Revolution, " Labour/Le Travail (2005); "Enlightenment Science and the State: the Legacy of Charles Coulston Gillispie," Perspectives on Science (2005); “Marx was Right!: the Guilds and Technological Change,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the 2005 Annual Meeting 33 (2006); “Privileged Enclaves: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Eighteenth Century France,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the 2004 Annual Meeting 32 (2006); “Understanding Crowd Action: Machine-breaking in England and France, 1789-1817,” in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the 2003 Annual Meeting 31 (2006); a chapter on "Science, Technology, and Health," in James R. Farr, ed., The Industrial Revolution in Europe (2002); "Building the New Regime: Founding the Bonapartist State in the Department of the Aube," French Historical Studies (2002); "The Legacy of 14 July 1789 in the Cultural History of French Industrialization," Proceedings of the Western Society for French History: Selected Papers of the 2000 Annual Meeting 28 (2002); ""Qui nous protégera de la garde nationale?": Le conflit ruralo-urbain dans le département de l'Aube en 1790," Annales Historiques de la Révolution française (2001); "Le plebiscite de l'an VIII et la construction du système préfectorial dans le département de l'Aube," in Jean-Pierre Jessenne, ed., Du Directoire au Consulat (2001); "The Urban Environment in Early Modern French Cities," Journal of Urban History 26 (2000); "Representations of the Other under the Terror in Provincial France," Selected Papers of the Western Society for French History 25 (1999); "Jean-Antoine Chaptal and the Cultural Roots of French Industrialization," with Margaret Jacob, Technology and Culture 39 (1998); "La lutte des factions au théâtre de Troyes sous le Directoire," in La République directoriale: Actes du colloque de Clermont-Ferrand (22, 23 et 24 mai 1997) (1998); "Toute politique est locale: Une relecture critique de Le nombre et la raison: la Révolution française et les élections," Annales Historiques de la Révolution française 311 (1998); "Who is the Elite?: the Social Contours of the Notability in the Department of the Aube, 1789-1820," Selected Papers of the Western Society for French History 24 (1997); "Bread and Circuses: Napoleonic Electoral Festivals in the Department of the Aube," The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850: Selected Papers, (1996); "Thermidor and the Crisis of Local Government," The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850: Selected Papers (1995); "The Limits of Centralization: Municipal Politics in Troyes during the L'Averdy Reforms," French History 9 (1995); "Who Speaks for the Nation?: Electoral Politics and the Issue of Sovereignty in the Department of the Aube during 1790," The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850: Selected Papers (1994); "The Revolution as Discourse," History of European Ideas 13 (1991). Book reviews have appeared in: American Historical Review, Metascience, History and Technology, Physics World, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, the Journal of Modern History, International Labor and Working-Class History, The Historian, The Canadian Journal of History, the History of European Ideas, European Legacy, Schriftleitung Technikgeschichte, Business History Review and on H-France and H-Genocide. In the spring of 2008, Horn is a Scholar-in-Residence at NYU. Professor Horn was also Associate Editor of Liberty , Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, a cd-rom and web-based project published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2001. For the 2002-03 academic year, Horn was a Senior Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on "The Path Not Taken: French Industrial Policy in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830" for which he received a National Science Foundation Grant in 1999-2000. Other Activities:Horn is Director of the Manhattan College Holocaust Resource Center. From 2000-07, he served as Associate Director. In 2002, he edited Reflections of the Soul: My Holocaust Experiences by Martin Spett published by the Center. He also oversaw the creation of two instructional DVDs featuring student interviews with survivors: An Interview with Martin Spett conducted by Chris McShane and Alex Koveos and No Time to Cry: Gisela Glaser’s Holocaust Memories conducted by Liz Harris. Both DVDs are available free of charge to teachers. Along with Merritt Roe Smith of MIT and Leonard N. Rosenband of Utah State University, Horn was co-convenor of "Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution" an international conference held at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT in April 2005. Horn is a member of the Editorial Board for the Proceedings of the Western Society for French History and is a member of the Governing Council (2007-10). Horn is also a book review editor for the on-line discussion group H-France covering the Revolutionary era and the nineteenth century. Regular presentation of papers at scholarly conferences both in North America and in France. Courses Taught/Teaching:
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