David Bell (historian)

David Avrom Bell ( born November 17, 1961 in New York City ) is an American historian.

David Bell is the son of the sociologist Daniel Bell and his wife, Pearl Kazin Bell.

He graduated from Princeton University in 1991 with the Ph.D. from. In the following years he taught at Yale University, the Johns Hopkins University and since 2010 at Princeton University with a focus on the history of France since the early modern period.

Bell published as a contributing editor at The New Republic as well as in several other magazines including The London Review of Books and Slate.

Writings

• Lawyers and citizens: The making of a political elite in Old Regime France. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0195076702
• The First Total War: Napoleon 's Europe and the birth of modern warfare as we know it. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 2007, ISBN 978-0-618-34965-4