Joyce Appleby

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Joyce Oldham Appleby (born April 9, 1929 in Omaha , Nebraska , † December 23, 2016 ) was an American historian. She was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Appleby graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1950 and initially worked as a journalist for Mademoiselle in New York City before going back to university and receiving her PhD from Claremont Graduate University in 1966 ( An American in Paris: The Career of an American pamphlet in French Revolutionary Politics, 1787-89 ). She then spent two years in Paris and in 1970/71 in London, where she did research for her book on economic thinking in 17th century England. From 1981 until her retirement in 2001 she taught at UCLA.

Appleby dealt with the early history of the USA in the 18th century and especially the history of ideas of republicanism, liberalism and capitalism. In addition to the USA, she also dealt with France and England in the 17th and 18th centuries.

In 1977/78 she was at Churchill College in Cambridge, 1990/91 Harmsworth Professor of American History in Oxford (and Fellow of Queen's College ) and in 1984 Becker Lecturer at Cornell University . From 1980 she was on the council of the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg.

In 2009 she received the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award . She was President of the Organization of American Historians (1991) and American Historical Association (1997). In 1993 she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1994 an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . In 2001 she was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .

She was co-editor of the American Historical Review and the William and Mary Quarterly .

She was married to historian Andrew Bell, a professor at San Diego State University , and had three children.

Fonts

  • Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England , Princeton University Press, 1978 (the book received the Berkshire Prize in 1978)
  • Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Jeffersonian Vision of the 1790s , New York: New York University Press, 1984 (Phelps Lectures at New York University 1982)
  • Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination , Harvard University Press, 1992 (collection of essays)
  • with Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob: Telling the Truth About History , New York: WW Norton 1994
  • Publisher Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective , New York: Routledge, 1996
  • Editor Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies , Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997
  • Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans , Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2000
  • The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism , New York: WW Norton 2010
  • Thomas Jefferson , Henry Holt 2003 (American Presidents Series)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://earlyamericanists.com/2016/12/30/in-memoriam-joyce-appleby-1929-2016/
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter A. (PDF; 945 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed April 12, 2018 .
  3. ^ Member History: Joyce Appleby. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 12, 2018 (with a short biography).
  4. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed April 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Appleby, Joyce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Appleby, Joyce O .; Appleby, Joyce; Oldham Appleby, Joyce; Oldham-Appleby, Joyce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Omaha
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2016