Background
James Livesey was born on December 23, 1963, in Cork, Ireland. He is the son of Thomas and Catherine (Cuffe) Livesey.
James Livesey
College Road, Cork T12 K8AF, Ireland
University College Cork where James Livesey received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Harvard University where James Livesey received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
College Road, Cork T12 K8AF, Ireland
University College Cork where James Livesey received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Harvard University where James Livesey received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
(This book reasserts the importance of the French Revoluti...)
This book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Scholars currently argue that the French Revolution did not significantly contribute to the development of modern political values. They no longer hold that the study of the Revolution offers any particular insight into the dynamics of historical change. James Livesey contends that contemporary historical study is devalued through this misinterpretation of the French Revolution and offers an alternative approach and a new thesis.
https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Revolution-Harvard-Historical-Studies/dp/0674006240
2001
(James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception...)
James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of civil society - an ideal of collective life between the family and politics - not to England or France, as many of his predecessors have done, but to the provincial societies of Ireland and Scotland in the eighteenth century. Livesey shows how civil society was first invented as an idea of renewed community for the provincial and defeated elites in the provinces of the British Empire and how this innovation allowed them to enjoy liberty without directly participating in the empire's governance until the limits of the concept were revealed.
https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Society-Empire-Scotland-Eighteenth-Century/dp/0300139020
2009
(Provincializing Global History explores the subtle transf...)
Provincializing Global History explores the subtle transformation of the coastal province of the Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Mining a wealth of archival sources, James Livesey unveils how provincial elites and peasant households unwittingly created new practices.
https://www.amazon.com/Provincializing-Global-History-Languedoc-1680-1830/dp/0300237162/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1611586222&refinements=p_27%3AJames+Gerard+Livesey&s=books&sr=1-1&text=James+Gerard+Livesey
2020
James Livesey was born on December 23, 1963, in Cork, Ireland. He is the son of Thomas and Catherine (Cuffe) Livesey.
James Livesey began his studies at University College Cork in 1982 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and philosophy in 1986. The next year, he obtained a Master of Arts degree in history there. In 1988 he began studies at Harvard University where he got a Master of Arts degree in history in 1990. In 1994 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in history there.
James Livesey began his career at the same time when he began his studies at University College Cork. In 1982 he became a stage manager at Cork Theater Company where he worked till 1988. He began teaching in 1992 when he joined Trinity College Dublin as a lecturer in history, the position he held till 2004. During his time at Trinity College, he was a visiting lecturer in history at Harvard University.
From 2004 till 2010 he was a reader in history at the University of Sussex simultaneously working as a visiting professor of history at Harvard University in 2007 - 2008. Livesey held the position of head of the department of history at the University of Sussex from 2010 till 2013. Then he became a professor of global history and associate dean of research at the University of Dundee. His current activity also includes the position of vice president of the National University of Ireland's Galway Research and Innovation Centre.
He researches and publishes extensively on the cultural history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic with an emphasis on the British Isles and France. His book, Civil Society and Empire: Ireland and Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, argues that the concept of civil society was worked out by the Atlantic community as a means of understanding its location in the emergent British Empire.
He previously published on topics such as religious movements and republicanism in the French Revolution, literary intellectuals in the 1848 revolution, and the culture of improvement in eighteenth-century Scotland and Ireland. His 2001 Making Democracy in the French Revolution established his position in the historiography of the French Revolution and this continues to be a central research interest. Livesey is a contributor to journals, including French Historical Studies and Past and Present as well.
James Livesey is a renowned historian and outstanding educator particularly known as a professor of global history and associate dean of research at the University of Dundee. For his activity, he was listed as a noteworthy historian by Marquis Who's Who. His teaching and research were recognized with the Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship, Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Jackson Brothers Fellowship, Government of Ireland Fellowship, K. Garth Huston Fellowship, Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions from Trinity College's Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, and other rewards.
(James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception...)
2009(This book reasserts the importance of the French Revoluti...)
2001(Provincializing Global History explores the subtle transf...)
2020James Livesey is a member of the Irish Historical Association, American Historical Association, and Society for French Historical Study.
James Livesey married Joanna Stephens on July 17, 1998. The marriage produced two children, Beatrix and Francesca.
