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Graduate Program in History

T.J.A. Le Goff

Degrees:

B.A. (Honours), University of British Columbia, 1965
Ph.D., University of London, 1970


Current Position: Professor of History, York University
 
Recent Publications:

[With D.M.G. Sutherland] “La révolution française et l’économie rurale,” Histoire & Mesure, XIV (1999), 79-120.

“How to Finance an Eighteenth-Century War,” in Ormrod, W.M., Bonney, R. and Bonney M. (eds.), Crises, Revolutions and Self-Sustained Growth: Essays in European Fiscal History (Stamford [England], 1999), 377-413.

[With D.M.G. Sutherland] “What Can We Learn from Leases? A Preliminary View”, Histoire & Mesure, XV, numéro 3 / 4 (2000), 289-320.

“Monetary Unification under the French Monarchy”, in Crowley, P. (ed.) Before and Beyond EMU: Historical Lessons and Future Prospects (London, Routledge, 2002), 42-68.

"Intendants," in Jonathan Dewald, ed. Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 6 vols, (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004), v. 3, 277-280.

"Louis XV," in Jonathan Dewald, ed. Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 6 vols, (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004), v. 3, 548-552.

"Louis XVI," in Jonathan Dewald, ed. Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 6 vols, (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004),v. 3, 552-554.

CD of documents “State and Society in France, 1589-1789”. [Translations from seventeenth and eighteenth-century texts, including 560 pages of original translations by TJAL] (Toronto, 2001)

 

Papers / Lectures:

“Monetary Unification in France under the Monarchy”, The EURO in Comparative Context: Monetary Unions Past, Present, and Future, Workshop sponsored by the European Community Studies Association of Canada & The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, York University, 4-5 March 1999

“État et clientélisme dans la France du XVIIIe siècle.” Séminaire France - Histoire et sciences sociales, Consulat-Général de France à Toronto, 26 November 1999.

"Death of a Stockbroker" participation in roundtable session on French Economic History Today, 31st Annual conference, Western Society for French History (Newport Beach, California), 1 November 2003.

"Croissance, crédit et comptabilité : la gestion du patrimoine rural des hôpitaux de Dijon 1720-1840" Conference on Production et productivité agricoles dans le monde occidental (XIVe-XXe siècles) Institut National de Recherches Agronomiques / École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 18-20 December 2003. [invited conference]

"Les biens ruraux de l'Hôpital Général, 1700-1914", Colloque "L'hôpital et la ville", 8e centenaire de l'Hôpital de Dijon, 1 October 2004 [invited conference]

"Mort d’un agent de change : État et Bourse à Paris 1720-1781", Séminaire – Histoire de l’Europe Moderne dir. Denis Crouzet, Université Paris IV – Sorbonne, 11 April 2005.

"The Paris Bourse in the Eighteenth Century", Seminar in Modern French History, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, dir. P. Pilbeam, 9 May 2005.

"Fermages et fermiers en Bourgogne du Nord, 1700-1914", Séminaire – Histoire économique et sociale des campagnes (17e-20e siècles), dir. G. Béaur, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 10 June 2005.


Courses taught recently: 1999-2000:
• History 2300 - Introduction to Modern Europe: Course Director (responsible for all lectures)
• History 4320 - Topics in French History: State and Society in Old Regime France: Course Director

History 5320 - State and Society in Early Modern France (MA/PhD seminar)
• History 6xxx - Ph.D. field preparation - Daphne Bonar
• History 6xxx - Ph.D. field preparation - Rachelle Longtin
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee - E. Henrich
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee – J. Montgomery

2000-01:
• History 2300 - Introduction to Modern Europe: Course Director (responsible for all lectures)
• History 3300 - France Since Louis XIV: Course Director

• History 6xxx - Ph.D. field preparation - Rachelle Longtin
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee - E. Henrich
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis supervision - Daphne Bonar
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee – J. Montgomery

2001-02:
• History 2300 - Introduction to Modern Europe: Course Director (responsible for all lectures)
• History 4320 - Topics in French History: State and Society in Old Regime France: Course Director

• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee - E. Henrich
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis supervision - Daphne Bonar
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. Thesis committee - R. Longtin
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee – J. Montgomery

2002-2003:
• History 2300 - Introduction to Modern Europe: Course Director (responsible for all lectures)
• History 4320 - Topics in French History: State and Society in Old Regime France: Course Director

• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee - E. Henrich
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis supervision - Daphne Bonar
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. Thesis committee - R. Longtin
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee – J. Montgomery

2003-2004:
• History 2300 - Introduction to Modern Europe: Course Director (responsible for all lectures)
• History 4320 - Topics in French History: State and Society in Old Regime France: Course Director

• History 6xxx - Ph.D. field preparation – Gregory Kennedy
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis supervision - Daphne Bonar
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. Thesis committee - R. Longtin
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee – J. Montgomery
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee - E. Henrich (successful defense, June 2004)

2004-2005 (sabbatical):
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis supervision – Gregory Kennedy
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis supervision - Daphne Bonar
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. Thesis committee - R. Longtin
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee – J. Montgomery

2005-2006:
• History 2300 - Introduction to Modern Europe: Course Director (responsible for all lectures)
• History 4320 - Topics in French History: State and Society in Old Regime France: Course Director
• History 5051/Huma 6109: Cultural History – The French Revolution: from Social Interpretation to Revisionism and Beyond

• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis supervision – Gregory Kennedy
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis supervision - Daphne Bonar
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. Thesis committee - R. Longtin
• History 7xxx - Ph.D. thesis committee – J. Montgomery

Research Interests: • French economic and social history, 1600 – 1900.
• Agriculture in France, 1600-1900
• French state finance in the old regime
• The Paris Bourse, 1650-1791
 
Awards/Grants:     • York University Research Development Fellowship 2002-2003
• York University Sabbatical Leave Fellowship 2004-2005