Colin Jones (1) (1947–)
Autore di Paris: The Biography of a City
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Sull'Autore
Colin Jones is professor of history at the University of Warwick.
Opere di Colin Jones
Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine) (1994) 23 copie
The charitable imperative : hospitals and nursing in ancien régime and revolutionary France (1989) 2 copie
Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740-1815 (2005) 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Jones, Colin David Hugh
- Data di nascita
- 1947-12-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- England, UK
- Istruzione
- Hampton Grammar School, Middlesex
University of Oxford (Jesus College)
University of Oxford (St Antony's College) - Attività lavorative
- historian
Professor of History - Organizzazioni
- University of Warwick
University of Exeter
Queen Mary University of London - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2014)
- Breve biografia
- I was educated at Oxford and came to Queen Mary in 2006. I have also taught at Newcastle, Exeter, Warwick, Stanford, Renmin and Paris-VIII universities.
I have held research positions at Princeton, the Collège de France and Columbia University’s Paris campus.
I am currently on a Leverhulme Trust Senior Fellowship from 2012-15. My project focuses on the day of 9 Thermidor when Robespierre was overthrown. My first publication on the project appeared as 'The Overthrow of Maximilien Robespierre and the "Indifference" of the People, American Historical Review (link is external) (2014)
http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/p...
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Paris: Biography of a City di Colin Jones
I bought this ten years ago, started and abandoned reading a few times, and then finally bit the bullet. And actually, most of Colin Jones' impossible task of condensing Paris into 500 pages is quite interesting! I enjoyed the history (obviously), the architecture and the 'feature boxes' on various subjects from the Pont Neuf to Josephine Baker. The inescapable politics and - well - the rest of the chapters after the Revolution and Haussmann's rather mercenary rebuilding of the city in the 1850s, were of less interest to me, I have to admit.… (altro)
Back in the 1950s, Alfred Cobban wrote the first of what became a three-volume "History of Modern France" for Penguin Press. Together these books provided a primarily political history of France from the death of Louis XIV to the withdrawal from Algeria in 1962 and survived for decades as a standard English-language introduction to modern French history, thanks in no small measure to the readability and insights contained within the trilogy.
As time went along, however, Cobban's books increasingly suffered from the their inability to incorporate the ever-growing body of research into French history and the changes in our understanding which this has brought about. As a result, Penguin Press commissioned a new three-volume series designed to supplant Cobban's volumes. As is increasingly the case the task once entrusted to one historian was now divided amongst three specialists, with Colin Jones writing the volume covering France in the 18th century. While generally emulating Cobban in focusing mainly on political history, Jones gives more attention than his predecessor to social and cultural developments during this period, creating a more well-rounded overview as a result. Because of this, the book is chock full of insights absent from Cobban's book, with Jones's integration of the Enlightenment and his explanation of its influence on political developments a particularly notable improvement over Cobban's work. It's easy to see why it has supplanted Cobban's earlier volume as a standard history of 18th century France, one that will likely maintain that title for as long as its predecessor did.… (altro)
As time went along, however, Cobban's books increasingly suffered from the their inability to incorporate the ever-growing body of research into French history and the changes in our understanding which this has brought about. As a result, Penguin Press commissioned a new three-volume series designed to supplant Cobban's volumes. As is increasingly the case the task once entrusted to one historian was now divided amongst three specialists, with Colin Jones writing the volume covering France in the 18th century. While generally emulating Cobban in focusing mainly on political history, Jones gives more attention than his predecessor to social and cultural developments during this period, creating a more well-rounded overview as a result. Because of this, the book is chock full of insights absent from Cobban's book, with Jones's integration of the Enlightenment and his explanation of its influence on political developments a particularly notable improvement over Cobban's work. It's easy to see why it has supplanted Cobban's earlier volume as a standard history of 18th century France, one that will likely maintain that title for as long as its predecessor did.… (altro)
Colin Jones's history of Paris is subtitled "The Biography of a City," yet the book he provides is virtually the opposite. For rather than providing an intimate portrait of the city through the ages, what he offers is an account of the city within the context of the nation's history. This is understandable given Paris's role in France's development, though as Jones demonstrates Paris wasn't always the center of authority in the country. It wasn't until the high Middle Ages that Paris was transformed from a modest river crossing into the capital of a kingdom, after which it grew spectacularly with the fortunes of the realm.
Though Jones is good at summarizing the city's early centuries, his chapters on Paris in the 18th and 19th centuries are the strongest. This is understandable, given that he specializes in the era, but his focus on this period (over half of the book's chapters are about the post-1715 era) has the effect of unbalancing his coverage somewhat. Still, his achievement is impressive, as he offers a impressively wide-raging account of the city's social and cultural evolution drawn form the existing French- and English-language literature on the metropolis. This is by far the best overall history of Paris available in English, one that is necessary reading for anyone interested in the "City of Light" and how it evolved into the place it is today.… (altro)
Though Jones is good at summarizing the city's early centuries, his chapters on Paris in the 18th and 19th centuries are the strongest. This is understandable, given that he specializes in the era, but his focus on this period (over half of the book's chapters are about the post-1715 era) has the effect of unbalancing his coverage somewhat. Still, his achievement is impressive, as he offers a impressively wide-raging account of the city's social and cultural evolution drawn form the existing French- and English-language literature on the metropolis. This is by far the best overall history of Paris available in English, one that is necessary reading for anyone interested in the "City of Light" and how it evolved into the place it is today.… (altro)
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