Isser Woloch
American historian
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Isser Woloch (born 1937[1]) is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His work focuses on the French Revolution and on Napoleon Bonaparte.
Isser Woloch | |
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| Awards | Leo Gershoy Award (1994) |
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| Discipline | French history |
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Early life
Woloch was educated at Columbia University (A.B., 1959) and Princeton University[2] (Ph.D., 1965).[3][4]
Career
After teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles, Indiana University Bloomington, and Columbia University, Woloch became a full professor at Columbia in 1975. He was named Moore Collegiate Professor of History in 1998.[1] Woloch was the winner of the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association in 1994.
Selected publications
As sole author
- Woloch, Isser (1970). Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic Movement under the Directory. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-06183-2.
- ——————— (1979). The French Veteran from the Revolution to the Restoration. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-1356-0 – via Internet Archive.
- ——————— (1982). Eighteenth-century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715–1789. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-01506-5 – via Internet Archive.
- ——————— (1994). The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789–1820s. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-03591-9 – via Internet Archive.
- ——————— (2001). Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32341-2.[5]
- ——————— (2019). The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States After World War II. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-24268-3.
As editor
- Woloch, Isser, ed. (1996). Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-2748-8 – via Internet Archive.
