Steven Pincus
Steven Pincus is a professor of history at Yale University, where he specializes in 17th- and 18th-century British and European history. He is also the Chair of Yale's Council on European Studies.
Education and career
In 1990, Pincus received a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He is a prominent scholar of Early Modern British history,[1] and his work has focused on the 17th century, in particular the Glorious Revolution and English foreign policy. His book 1688: The First Modern Revolution has been praised as providing "a new understanding of the origins of the modern, liberal state."[2] The Economist named it as one of the best books on history published in 2009.[3] Professor Mark Knights called it "brilliant and provocative," for Pincus argues the revolution of 1688 was the first modern revolution. 1688 was violent and divisive; it represented not a coup or invasion but a popular rejection of the king's absolutist modernisation based on the French Catholic model. The Revolution, Pincus argues, expressed an Anglo-Dutch emphasis on consent of the governed, toleration of different forms of Protestantism, free debate and free commerce.[4]
In March 2010 he delivered the Sir John Neale lecture at University College, London. He was in Oxford for the 2010-2011 academic year working on the origins of the British Empire.
Titles and positions
- 2005–Present — Professor of history, Yale University
- 1993–2005 — Professor of history, University of Chicago
Selected Works
- "'Coffee Politicians Does Create': Coffeehouses and Restoration Political Culture," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 67, No. 4, December 1995.
- Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
- A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration (edited with Alan Houston) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
- England's Glorious Revolution: A Brief History with Documents (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
- The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England (edited with Peter Lake) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)
- 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
References
- ↑ "How England Became Modern - A Revolutionary View". The New York Review of Books. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2009.
- ↑ "England's Revolution". The Economist. 15 October 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2009.
- ↑ "Books of the Year: Page-turners". The Economist. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2009.
- ↑ Mark Knights, review of 1688: The First Modern Revolution, (review no. 884) online; Date accessed: 2 July 2012