Isser Woloch
Isser Woloch | |
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| Awards | Leo Gershoy Award (1994) |
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| Discipline | French history |
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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.
Early life
[edit]Woloch was educated at Columbia University (A.B., 1959) and Princeton University[2] (Ph.D., 1965).[3][4]
Career
[edit]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
[edit]As sole author
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Woloch, Isser". Writers Directory 2005. Gale. December 2, 2025. Retrieved December 5, 2025 – via Encyclopedia.com.
- ^ "Nancy Spelman Is Future Bride Of Isser Woloch; Graduate of Wellesley And Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton Engaged". The New York Times. June 3, 1962. p. 106. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
- ^ "Dana Goldberg, David Woloch". The New York Times. October 10, 1999. Section 9, p. 10. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 431268611. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
- ^ Loos, Ted (November 5, 2000). "A Biographer of Presidents Tackles an Emperor". Television/Radio. The New York Times. Section 2, p. 12. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 91359053.
- ^ Bernstein, Richard (February 28, 2001). "How Staunch Republicans Became a Dictator's Pals". Books of the Times. The New York Times (book review). p. E8. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 431664823. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
External links
[edit]- Columbia University faculty profile
- Isser Woloch at Library of Congress, with 10 library catalog records