David A. Bell
David Avrom Bell (born November 17, 1961 in New York City ) is an American historian .
David Bell is the son of the sociologist Daniel Bell and his wife Pearl Kazin Bell.
He graduated from Princeton University in 1991 with a Ph.D. from. Subsequently, he taught at Yale University , Johns Hopkins University and, since 2010, at Princeton University with a focus on the history of France since the early modern period.
Bell publishes as a Contributing Editor in The New Republic as well as in various other journals such as The London Review of Books and Slate .
Fonts
- Lawyers and citizens: The making of a political elite in Old Regime France. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0195076702
- The Cult of the Nation in France: inventing nationalism, 1680-1800. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2003, ISBN 0-674-00447-7
- The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the birth of modern warfare as we know it. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 2007, ISBN 978-0-618-34965-4
Web links
- David Bell on the Princeton University website
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bell, David A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bell, David Avrom (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |