Peter Jones (historian)

Peter M. Jones is professor of French history at the University of Birmingham.^[1] He is a specialist in the French Revolution, rural France, science and technology in the 18th century, and the history of Birmingham and the West Midlands in the 18th century.^[2]

Jones earned his BA at the University of Leeds (1967-70) and his PhD at the University of Oxford (Balliol College) (1970-73) under Richard Cobb. He did research in France as a boursier of the French government at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail (1971-72).

Jones is a member of the editorial boards of French History and Annales du Midi, and sits on the management committees of The Archives of Soho and Revolutionaryplayers. He is a jury member for the Prix Baluze (European local history).

Selected publications

• Reform and Revolution in France: the Politics of Transition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
• The French Revolution in Social and Political Perspective. E. Arnold, London, 1996.
• "Living the Enlightenment and the French Revolution: James Watt, Matthew Boulton and their Sons", Historical Journal, 42 (1999), 157-182.
• Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France, 1760-1820: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.
• "Industrial Enlightenment in Practice: Visitors to the Soho Manufactory, 1765-1820", Midland History, 33 (2008), 68-96.
• The French Revolution, 1787-1804. Longman, London, 2003, (Seminar Studies in History) (revised and expanded edn. 2009)
• Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760-1820. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2009.

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