Liana Vardi
PhD
Fields
Early Modern Europe; History of France; Intellectual History; History of Medicine, Disability and Science; Social and Cultural History; Urban History
Education
- PhD, McGill, 1985
Courses Regularly Taught
History of Paris
Ancien Régime
Early Modern Europe
Voyages of Discovery
Vichy France
Film in History
Research Interests
France, intellectual life in the eighteenth century, the relationship between the arts and sciences, the perception of nature and of the rural world
Current Research
The Liberal Nobility in the late eighteenth century and French Revolution
Selected Publications
Books
The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment, Cambridge UP, 2012; released in paperback, 2014.
The Land and the Loom, Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680-1800, Duke UP, 1993
Articles
“Physiocratic Visions”, Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, January 2010
“Rewriting the Lives of Eighteenth-Century Economists,” American Historical Review, June 2009
“Imagining the Harvest in Early Modern Europe”, American Historical Review, December 1996
“Construing the Harvest: Gleaners, Farmers and Officials in Early Modern France, American Historical Review, December 1993
Awards
- Fellowship, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2000-2001)
- Fellowship, The Yale Program in Agrarian Studies (1994-5)
- The Koren Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies, for the best article in French History, 1994