CV, Thomas M. Luckett

Thomas M. Luckett

Associate Professor of History
Portland State University

Education:

B.A., Oberlin College, 1984
Licence d'histoire, Université de Paris-IV, 1985
M.A., Princeton University, 1987
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992

Principal teaching fields:

France, 1515-1815
Money, Trade & Empire, 1500-1800
The American Revolution
Historiography

Dissertation:

"Credit and commercial society in France, 1740-1789," Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992, advisor Robert Darnton.

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Publications:

“A Parisian Artisan during the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763): Commercial Credit in a Time of Severe Economic Stress,” presented at the World Economic History Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, Aug. 2009 [unrefereed publication on the conference website].
“The Sales and Business Strategies of a Parisian Artisan, 1754-1764: The Letters and Accounts of N.-C. Flocquet,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, vol. 36 (2008), pp. 93-108.
"Imaginary Currency and Real Guillotines: The Intellectual Origins of the Financial Terror in France," Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 31, no. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 117-139.
"Interest," in Jonathan Dewald, ed., Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 6 vols (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004), vol. 3, pp. 280-283.
"Hunting for Spies and Whores: A Parisian Riot on the Eve of the French Revolution," Past and Present, no. 156 (August 1997), pp. 116-143. [Access through PSU proxy server]
"The Debate Over Imprisonment for Debt in Eighteenth-Century France," in Laurence Fontaine, et al., eds, Des Personnes aux institutions: Réseaux et culture du crédit du XVIe au XXe siècle en Europe (Brussels: Academia Bruylant, 1997), pp. 163-172.
"Crises financières dans la France du XVIIIe siècle," trans. Pierre Lachaier, Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, vol. 43, no. 2 (Apr.-June 1996), pp. 266-292. [Access through PSU proxy server]
"'There is No More Money Here': Money Famine and Tax Revolt in Early Modern France," Money: Lure, Lore, and Literature, ed. John Louis DiGaetani (Greenwood Press, 1994), pp. 77-85.

Book Reviews:

Laurent Turcot, Le Promeneur à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Gallimard, 2007), in H-France Review, vol. 10, no. 23 (Feb. 2010), pp. 114-116.
Amalia D. Kessler, A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France (New Haven: Yale UP, 2007), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 39, no. 3 (winter 2009), pp. 420-421. [Access through PSU proxy server]
Thomas M. Kavanagh, Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005), in H-France Review, vol. 6, no. 109 (Sept. 2006).
David Stasavage, Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), in H-France Review, vol. 4, no. 63 (June 2004).
Olivier Zunz & Alan S. Kahan, eds, The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), in: Pacific Historical Review (Aug. 2003), vol. 72, no. 3 (Aug. 2003), pp. 435-437. [Access through PSU proxy server]
William H. Sewell, Jr., A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbé Sieyes and What is the Third Estate? (Durham: Duke UP, 1994) in: Kevin L. Cope & Robert C. Leitz, eds, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, vol. 20/21 for 1994 & 1995 (NY: AMS Press, 2001), pp. 267-268.
Dale Van Kley, ed., The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789 (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994) in: Kevin L. Cope & Robert C. Leitz, eds, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, vol. 20/21 for 1994 & 1995 (NY: AMS Press, 2001), pp. 277-278.

Writings on the PSU budget:

Figures (distributed with print edition of the same issue).

"Some Thoughts on Enrollment Incentives" (distriuted to the PSU History Department on 29 March 1999, & to the PSU Faculty Senate on 5 April 1999).

Member of the editorial board:

Siméon-Prosper Hardy, Mes loisirs, ou journal d’événemens tels qu’ils parviennent à ma connoissance, 12 vols (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008-2011).

05/2010