Emma Rothschild
Auteur de Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment
A propos de l'auteur
Emma Rothschild is the Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History and director of the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, and a fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment.
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Rothschild, Emma
- Nom légal
- Rothschild, Emma Georgina
- Date de naissance
- 1948-05-16
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
USA - Études
- University of Oxford (Somerville College)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Professions
- professor (Harvard University)
economic historian - Relations
- Sen, Amartya (husband)
Sen, Indrani (step-daughter)
Dev Sen, Antara (step-daughter)
Rothschild, Baron Nathaniel Mayer Victor (father)
Gray, Simon (brother-in-law)
Rothschild, Miriam (aunt) (tout afficher 7)
Koenigswarter, Pannonica de (aunt) - Organisations
- United Nations Association (Board of Directors)
Harvard University - Prix et distinctions
- Order of St Michael and St George (Companion)
University of Oxford (Fellow - Magdalen College) - Courte biographie
- Emma Rothschild was born in London, England, the daughter of Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, and his wife Teresa Georgina Mayor. At the age of 15, she became the youngest woman ever admitted to Somerville College at the University of Oxford, from which she graduated in 1967 with a BA in philosophy, politics and economics. She was a Kennedy Scholar in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1978 to 1988, she was an associate professor at MIT and also taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. She is a fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge and a member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Foundation. She has written books and scholarly articles on economic history and the history of economic thought, including Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age (1973); Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (2001);
and The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (2011).
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Economic sentiments : Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the… par Emma Rothschild
Smith, Adam (Subject); Condorcet, Marquis de (Subject)
A frustrating book in that there's a mass of information but the author has trouble organizing it and in her attempt to do so repeats certain themes over and over and also spends too much time talking about the nature of this micro history and difficulties in gathering information. Despite these faults, it does give a picture of the times and the nature of some lives during that time.
This is an interesting look at the 18th-century through the perspective of the Johnstone family, who lived throughout the British empire and who were both slaveholders and abolitionists, soldiers and merchants. I'll admit that I struggled to keep all the family members straight (11 children in one family!) and that the most interesting characters were not the Johnstones themselves but those who surrounded them. The story of Bell or Belinda will likely stay with me for quite some time, as will the little tidbits about David Hume and Adam Smith. This is a great book to read for those interested in better understanding the 18th-century British empire.… (plus d'informations)
After reading several extremely complimentary reviews of Emma Rothschild's The Inner Life of Empires (Princeton University Press, 2011) I ordered up a copy and waited in anticipation for it to arrive so I could dig in. I enjoy very much the concept of microhistorical perspective, and Rothschild's effort, to focus on the far-flung brothers and sisters of a single family, the Scottish-born Johnstones, seemed likely to work well.
The Johnstones saw it all: four of the brothers ended up in the House of Commons, several traveled to various reaches of the empire (India, the Caribbean, North America), there were complicated inheritance suits and legal cases of grave import, and a not-insignificant body of correspondence both between the family and with their many acquaintances to draw on. Cameo appearances are made by a whole host of figures, everyone from James McPherson (of Ossian fame) to James Boswell, Alexander Wedderburn, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Dave Hume, and many others.
Certain sections of this book were extremely well executed. Rothschild has clearly done her research, mining the archives for every scrap of evidence about the family and their activities, and documenting it well (the notes, which are lovely, take up 150 pages). What she has not done, however, is make the disparate parts of her story into a cohesive whole. Information is repeated (sometimes three or even four times), and the book is separated into short chunks of text which severely restrict the possibility of any narrative flow. The family's story, and how it fits into the larger cultural, political, and economical life of the period, gets lost amidst the repetition.
I hoped, quite honestly, for more from this book. The idea is a wonderful one, the Johnstone family works perfectly as a case study, and the information is there. Some additional attention from a skilled editor might have made it a great book. Instead, I'm sorry to say it was a disappointment.
http://philobiblos.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-review-inner-life-of-empires.html… (plus d'informations)
The Johnstones saw it all: four of the brothers ended up in the House of Commons, several traveled to various reaches of the empire (India, the Caribbean, North America), there were complicated inheritance suits and legal cases of grave import, and a not-insignificant body of correspondence both between the family and with their many acquaintances to draw on. Cameo appearances are made by a whole host of figures, everyone from James McPherson (of Ossian fame) to James Boswell, Alexander Wedderburn, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Dave Hume, and many others.
Certain sections of this book were extremely well executed. Rothschild has clearly done her research, mining the archives for every scrap of evidence about the family and their activities, and documenting it well (the notes, which are lovely, take up 150 pages). What she has not done, however, is make the disparate parts of her story into a cohesive whole. Information is repeated (sometimes three or even four times), and the book is separated into short chunks of text which severely restrict the possibility of any narrative flow. The family's story, and how it fits into the larger cultural, political, and economical life of the period, gets lost amidst the repetition.
I hoped, quite honestly, for more from this book. The idea is a wonderful one, the Johnstone family works perfectly as a case study, and the information is there. Some additional attention from a skilled editor might have made it a great book. Instead, I'm sorry to say it was a disappointment.
http://philobiblos.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-review-inner-life-of-empires.html… (plus d'informations)
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