Emma Rothschild is Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University. She is Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics, a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and professeur invit茅e at the Centre d鈥橦istoire de Sciences Po, Paris. She is involved in collaborative research projects, at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard, on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas and on Visualizing Historical Networks. She is also an Affiliated Faculty member at Harvard Law School. Publications include 鈥淓conomic History and Nationalism鈥� (Capitalism, Winter 2021), 鈥淎 (New) Economic History of the American Revolution?鈥� (New England Quarterly, March 2018), “Isolation and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century France” (American Historical Review, October 2014), (Harvard University Press, 2001), (Princeton University Press, 2011), and An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2021).
Selected Publications
- An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2021).
- The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Princeton University Press, 2011)
- “Isolation and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century France,” American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 4 (October, 2014), pp. 1055-1082.
- 鈥淭he Archives of Universal History鈥� in Journal of World History, Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 2008), pp. 375-401
- “A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic” in Past and Present, No. 192 pp. 67-108 (August 2006)
- “Adam Smith” in The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith with Amartya Sen (2005)
- “Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the 18th Century Provinces” in Modern Intellectual History, Vol 1, No. 1 pp 3-25 (April 2004)
- Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 2001)
