Title
Full Professor in American Civilization
Contact
http://www.univ-paris3.fr:/m-gervais-pierre-224374.kjsp?RH=1178827308773#
ResearchBioMediasPublicationsArticles
Research themes
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Early Modern merchant practices
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18th-century Atlantic economies
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Industrial Revolution
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Political economy of the U.S., 19th-20th c.
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Accounting history
Research Supervision:
- At the M.A. level: Economic, social and political history of North America and the U.S., 18th-20th c.
- Theses in progress: Contrabands in the Civil War; Municipal socialism in Burlington, Vt., 1970s-1980s
- Thesis defended: Merchant accounting and merchant networks, Philadelphia, 18th c.
Current Project
I am currently finishing a book on Early Modern merchant practices and the consequences one can derive from them concerning the chronology of “capitalist” development. I am also in the process of exploring the legal framework within which these practices were deployed, in a comparative approach covering both Roman law and Common law. I also continue researching preindustrial accounting practices in the Atlantic world.
Education and Academic Positions:
- 1988, M.A., Princeton University
- 1993, Ph.D. EHESS, “Independent producers, merchants, craftsmen, farmers, and the rise of the industrial order; the case of Trenton, N.J., 1800-1860”, dir. P. Fridenson
- 1993-99, Associate Professor, English Department, University Paris 3
- 1999-2013, Associate Professor, History Department, University Paris 8
- 2012, HDR, “Of historical discontinuity: Political economy and temporalities, 18th-19th c.”; guarantor: Dominique Margairaz,
- 2013-present, Full Professor, University Sorbonne-Nouvelle
