Joyce Appleby

Joyce Oldham Appleby ( born April 9, 1929 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American historian. She was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA).

Appleby graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1950 and was initially a journalist for Mademoiselle in New York City before she went to the University again and in 1966 received his doctorate at Claremont Graduate University ( An American in Paris: The Career of an American pamphlet in French Revolutionary Politics, 1787-89 ). After that, she spent two years in Paris and 1970/71 in London, where she did research for her book on economic thought in England in the 17th century. 1981 until her retirement in 2001 she taught at UCLA.

Appleby deals with the early history of the United States in the 18th century and especially the history of ideas of republicanism, liberalism and capitalism. In addition to the U.S., she also deals with France and England in the 17th and 18th centuries.

1977/78 it was at Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1990/91 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford ( and Fellow of Queen's College) and 1984 Becker Lecturer at Cornell University. From 1980, she was in the Council of the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg.

In 2009 she received the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award. She was president of the Organization of American Historians (1991) and the American Historical Association ( 1997). She became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993.

She was co-editor of the American Historical Review and the William and Mary Quarterly.

She was with the historian Andrew Bell, a professor at San Diego State University, is married and has three children.

Writings

  • Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England, Princeton University Press, 1978 ( received the book in 1978 the Berkshire Prize )
  • Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Jeffersonian Vision of the 1790s, New York: New York University Press, 1984 ( Phelps Lectures at New York University, 1982)
  • Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination, Harvard University Press, 1992 ( collection of essays )
  • Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob: Telling the Truth About History, New York: WW Norton 1994
  • Publisher Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective, New York: Routledge, 1996
  • Publisher Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997
  • Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2000
  • The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism, New York: WW Norton 2010
  • Thomas Jefferson, Henry Holt 2003 ( American Presidents Series)
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