James Collins
Title
Professor
Department
Department of History
Research
Research
Please see my c.v. for details. In addition to the two current projects listed under research in progress, I would note the following recent or forthcoming activities.
The State in Early Modern France (Cambridge University Press, 2009, second edition). The new edition is 40% new and offers some significantly different interpretations.
Recent articles (2006-10)
Short biographies of Pierre Goubert and of Pierre de Saint Jacob in French Historians 1900-2000 New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France, P. Daileader and P. Whalen, eds. (NY and London: John Wiley & Sons, 2010).
“County Republicans’ and the Concept of Active Citizenship in Sixteenth-Century Poland and France,” in Citizenship and Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1550-1772, ed. K. Frierich and B. Pendzich (Leiden: Brill, in press).
“Guerres et fiscalité » in Vauban, opposant et réformateur, ed. J. Bart, Presses Universitaires de Bourgogne, in press. Conference in Avallon, March 2007.
“The Constitution of the Third May (1791) in European context,” Supreme Constitutional Tribunal of Poland, Warsaw, May 2008. The Tribunal hosted a series of conferences in 2007-08 on the theme of “Lex est Rex in Polonia et in Lithuania.” They published the papers given by 16 historians in a special volume of that title. My essay appears there in Polish translation (119-144). An English version is due out soon.
“La campagne bourguignonne à la fin du XVIIe siècle », in Campagnes en mouvement en France du XVIe au XIXe siècle Autour de Pierre de Saint Jacob, ed. A. Follain, (Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2008), 235-250. Conference in Dijon, March 2007.
« L’influence de Pierre de Saint Jacob sur l’historiographie anglophone, » in Des terroirs et des hommes. Études sur le monde rural et le pays bourguignon (essays of Pierre de Saint Jacob) (Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2008), 443-450.
“Beyond History: Memory and Justice at Oradour-sur-Glane, Contemporary French Civilization XXXI, n. 2 (2007): 203-230.
”Translation de domicile ; Rethinking Sedentarity and Mobility in the Early Modern French Countryside,” French History 20, n. 4 (2006): 387-404.
”De la république française à l'état français: Duplessis-Mornay et la transformation de la citoyenneté en France,” Servir Dieu, le roi et l’État. Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (1549-1623), Albineana 18, ed. H. Daussy and V. Ferrer (Niort: Cahiers d’Aubigné, 2006): 325-339.
Recent Talks (2008-10)
As noted above, several of the publications began life as conference papers.
“Un parricide raté: Jean Chastel et Henri IV,” Régicides en Europe du XVe au XIXe siècle. Colloque international, Pau, June 2010.
“Taxes and borderlands in early modern France,” Discontinuous taxation: borders and tax collection in the Iberian Empires (XVI-XVIII centuries), Seville, June 2010.
“Le pouvoir municipal et l'écroulement de l’Ancien Régime: question sociale ou question politique ?” L'exercice du pouvoir municipal en France de la fin du Moyen Age à 1789, Rennes, February 2010.
“Women and the Birth of Modern Consumer Capitalism,” Western Society for French History, October 2009, Boulder, CO.
“The Impact of Historical Crises on Contemporary Politics: The Legacy of the Fronde & the Famine of 1709.” Dynamics of Power in early modern France, Conference in honor of Roger Mettam, IHR, London, July 2009.
“Citizens and Subjects: Defining 'absolute power' in early modern France,” University of Sussex, June 2009.
“Cross pollination: The secret life of parishes.” Seventh Warwick Symposium on Parish Research: Microhistory – Parish History – Local History, University of Warwick, May 2009.
"East meets West: Constitutions and the flow of political ideas in eighteenth-century Europe and America.” Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York, May 2009.
School of Advanced Study, University of London, Power and Faction at the early modern court, Roundtable in honour of the 70th birthday of Roger Mettam, May 2009.
“European constitutional history: rethinking 19th-century paradigms,” University of Aberdeen, May 2009.
"Beheading the Body Politic: Parricides and Politics in the France of Henri IV,” Centre for early modern Studies, University of St. Andrews, April 2009.
“Approaches to the History of the French State,” University of Reading, February 2009.
“State and Commonwealth in Early Modern Europe: The French Case in a Comparative Framework,” IHR, London, January 2009,
“L’état dans la France moderne: l’optique Anglophone,” Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, January 2009.
“The geography of social mobility in late 17th-century Champagne,” Western Society for French History, Québec, November 2008.
“Nation and patrie in early modern French political practice,” The Transformation of Christian Europe: Princes, Dynastic Agglomerations and Fatherlands in Shaping European Society, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, June 2008.
The State in Early Modern France (Cambridge University Press, 2009, second edition). The new edition is 40% new and offers some significantly different interpretations.
Recent articles (2006-10)
Short biographies of Pierre Goubert and of Pierre de Saint Jacob in French Historians 1900-2000 New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France, P. Daileader and P. Whalen, eds. (NY and London: John Wiley & Sons, 2010).
“County Republicans’ and the Concept of Active Citizenship in Sixteenth-Century Poland and France,” in Citizenship and Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1550-1772, ed. K. Frierich and B. Pendzich (Leiden: Brill, in press).
“Guerres et fiscalité » in Vauban, opposant et réformateur, ed. J. Bart, Presses Universitaires de Bourgogne, in press. Conference in Avallon, March 2007.
“The Constitution of the Third May (1791) in European context,” Supreme Constitutional Tribunal of Poland, Warsaw, May 2008. The Tribunal hosted a series of conferences in 2007-08 on the theme of “Lex est Rex in Polonia et in Lithuania.” They published the papers given by 16 historians in a special volume of that title. My essay appears there in Polish translation (119-144). An English version is due out soon.
“La campagne bourguignonne à la fin du XVIIe siècle », in Campagnes en mouvement en France du XVIe au XIXe siècle Autour de Pierre de Saint Jacob, ed. A. Follain, (Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2008), 235-250. Conference in Dijon, March 2007.
« L’influence de Pierre de Saint Jacob sur l’historiographie anglophone, » in Des terroirs et des hommes. Études sur le monde rural et le pays bourguignon (essays of Pierre de Saint Jacob) (Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2008), 443-450.
“Beyond History: Memory and Justice at Oradour-sur-Glane, Contemporary French Civilization XXXI, n. 2 (2007): 203-230.
”Translation de domicile ; Rethinking Sedentarity and Mobility in the Early Modern French Countryside,” French History 20, n. 4 (2006): 387-404.
”De la république française à l'état français: Duplessis-Mornay et la transformation de la citoyenneté en France,” Servir Dieu, le roi et l’État. Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (1549-1623), Albineana 18, ed. H. Daussy and V. Ferrer (Niort: Cahiers d’Aubigné, 2006): 325-339.
Recent Talks (2008-10)
As noted above, several of the publications began life as conference papers.
“Un parricide raté: Jean Chastel et Henri IV,” Régicides en Europe du XVe au XIXe siècle. Colloque international, Pau, June 2010.
“Taxes and borderlands in early modern France,” Discontinuous taxation: borders and tax collection in the Iberian Empires (XVI-XVIII centuries), Seville, June 2010.
“Le pouvoir municipal et l'écroulement de l’Ancien Régime: question sociale ou question politique ?” L'exercice du pouvoir municipal en France de la fin du Moyen Age à 1789, Rennes, February 2010.
“Women and the Birth of Modern Consumer Capitalism,” Western Society for French History, October 2009, Boulder, CO.
“The Impact of Historical Crises on Contemporary Politics: The Legacy of the Fronde & the Famine of 1709.” Dynamics of Power in early modern France, Conference in honor of Roger Mettam, IHR, London, July 2009.
“Citizens and Subjects: Defining 'absolute power' in early modern France,” University of Sussex, June 2009.
“Cross pollination: The secret life of parishes.” Seventh Warwick Symposium on Parish Research: Microhistory – Parish History – Local History, University of Warwick, May 2009.
"East meets West: Constitutions and the flow of political ideas in eighteenth-century Europe and America.” Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York, May 2009.
School of Advanced Study, University of London, Power and Faction at the early modern court, Roundtable in honour of the 70th birthday of Roger Mettam, May 2009.
“European constitutional history: rethinking 19th-century paradigms,” University of Aberdeen, May 2009.
"Beheading the Body Politic: Parricides and Politics in the France of Henri IV,” Centre for early modern Studies, University of St. Andrews, April 2009.
“Approaches to the History of the French State,” University of Reading, February 2009.
“State and Commonwealth in Early Modern Europe: The French Case in a Comparative Framework,” IHR, London, January 2009,
“L’état dans la France moderne: l’optique Anglophone,” Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, January 2009.
“The geography of social mobility in late 17th-century Champagne,” Western Society for French History, Québec, November 2008.
“Nation and patrie in early modern French political practice,” The Transformation of Christian Europe: Princes, Dynastic Agglomerations and Fatherlands in Shaping European Society, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, June 2008.
Projects
- From Republic to State (1996-2010)
- Hit the Road, Jacques (1986-)