Alessandro Stanziani
HDR (Habilitation Degree to Professorship)
EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), CRH (Centre de recherches historiques): full professor
CNRS (Centre National des recherches Scientifiques), Directeur de recherche (Senior Researcher)
Research Topics
- Russian Serdom
- Post-slavery labour in the Indian Ocean, 19th-20th century
- History of regulation and competition in Europe, 18th-20th centuries
Education and Academic Employment
| Education: |
| November 1985 |
graduation with full marks and honour (110/110 cum laude) in economics, University of Naples. |
| 1991 |
Ph.D. in Economics, Department of economics, University of Naples. |
| January 1995 |
Ph.D. in History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Department of History. Honours and special mention of the commette. |
| 2003 |
“Habilitation à diriger des recherches” (HDR) , University of Lille, manuscript on: Food fraud and falsification in France, 1789-1914. |
| Academic Employment: |
| 1994-1999 |
assistant professor, University of Naples |
| Since 1999 |
researcher CNRS, Paris |
| Since 2007 |
professor EHESS, Paris |
Research Fields of Interest
- Economic and Social History of Russia, 18th-20th century
- Business history, france and Europe, 18th- early 20th century
- Labour and Bondage in the Indian Ocean, 17th-early 20th century
- Food History, trademarks and counterfeiting.
- Global History, 17th -20th century
Selected Publications
Books
- L’économie en révolution. Le cas russe,1870-1930, Albin Michel, “L’évolution de l’humanité”, 1998, 519 pp.
- Histoire de la qualité alimentaire, 18e-20e siècles, Paris, Seuil, 440 p. 2005.
- Rules of exchange. French capitalism in comparative perspective, 18th -20th centuries, Cambridge, Cambridge University press, 2012
- Bâtisseurs d’Empires. Russie, Inde et Chine à la croisée des mondes. Paris, Raison d’agir, 2012.
- (ed.) La qualité des produits en France XVIIIe-XXe siècles, Paris, Belin, 2003.
- 6. (with Martin Bruegel and Jérôme Bourdieu), Nomenclatures et classifications. Enjeux économiques et dynamiques historiques, Inra, Paris, 2003.
- (ed.) Dictionnaire de l’économie-droit, XVIIIe-XXe siècles, Paris, LGDJ, 321 p.
- with Nadine Levratto, Le capitalisme au future antérieure. Crédit et spéculation en France, XVIIIe-XXe siècles, Bruylant, 2010.
- Le travail contraint en Europe et en Asie, XVIe-XXe siècles, Paris, éditions de la MSH 2010.
Articles in peer-reviews journal and books’ chapters: 86 titles between 1986 and 2011. Short selection:
- “Génération Tchayanov: exploitation familiare, marché et développement dans la pensée de Tchelintsev, Makarov et Brutskus”, Cahiers d’économie et sociologie rurales, n.14, 1990, pp.95-116
- “Statisticiens, zemstvo et Etat en Russie,1880-1893”, Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, 1991, n.4, pp.445-468.
- « Les statistiques des récoltes en Russie, 1905-1928″, Histoire et mesure, 1992, VII, 1/2, pp. 73-98.
- Le débat sur la rationalité économique en Russie,1893-1930″, Annales HSC, n.1,1996, pp.215-239.
- “The First World War and the Disintegration of Economic Spaces in Russia” in Judith Pallot (edit.), Transforming Peasants. Society, State, andthe Peasantry, 1861-1930, London, Mac Millan 1998, pp. 174-194.
- “Statistika i ekonomika mezhdu politikoi i teknokratiei” (la statistique et l’économie entre politique et technocratie), in Vlast’ i nauka, uchenye i vlast’ (Power and science, the scientiste and the power), Saint-Petersbourg, 2003, Dmitri Bulanin, pp.133-151.
- Wine reputation and quality controls: the origins of the AOC in 19th century France”, European journal of law and economics, 18,2, sept. 2004, p. 149-167.
- Der gute Wein. Über die Entstehung und Entwicklung qualitativer Normen auf den Weinmärket Frankreichs im 19. Jahrundert”, Historische anthropologie, 14,1, 2006, 68-93.
- Negotiating innovation in a market economy : foodstuffs and beverages adulteration in 19th century France”, Enterprise and society, 8,2, 2007, p. 375-412.
- Free Labor-Forced Labor : an Uncertain Boundary ? The Circulation of Economic Ideas between Russia and Europe from the 18th to the Mid-19th Century”, Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2008, 9,1, p. 1-27
- Serfs slaves, or wage earners ? The legal statute of labour in Russia from a comparative perspective, from the 16th to the 19th century », Journal of global history, 2008, 3, 2: 183-202.
- Information, quality and legal rules : wine adulteration in 19th century France », Business History, 51, 2 (2009) : 268-291
- The travelling Panopticon. Labor institutions and Labor practices in Russia and Britain in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”, Comparative studies in Society and history, 51, 4, oct. 2009, pp. 715-741
- Labour institutions in a global perspective, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century”, International review of social history, 54 (2009), pp. 351-358
- Economic Information on International Markets: French Strategies in the Italian Mirror (Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries)”, Enterprise and society, 11, 1 (2010), pp.26-64.
- Hoarding, Speculation, and the Public Order of the Market in France, end of the eighteenth century, 1914”. Law and social inquiry, 36,3 (2011):727-760.
Honors
| 1984 |
fellowship granted by the Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici in order to attend a cycle of seminaries supervised by Professor P. Mathias at the St. Hilda’s College, Oxford on “The First Industrial Revolution and the Process of Industrialization in Britain” |
| 1986-7 |
fellow, Fondazione Einaudi, Torino. Chairman of the Scientific Board Prof. F. Venturi |
| 1987-1990 |
doctoral fellowship, University of Naples |
| Spring semester 1991 |
post-doctoral fellowship, the A. Harriman Institute, Columbia University |
| June-December 1992 |
post-doctoral fellowship, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the French Ministry of Foreign Affair |
| 1992-3 |
fellow, Collegium Budapest |
| July-September 1995 |
special guest at the Russian Academy of Science |
| 1995 (fall semester) |
fellow at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University |
| 2001 |
Invited guest, University of Ann Harbour, Michigan |
| 2011-12 |
fellow at the WIKO, Berlin. |
Grants
| 2000-2003 |
Grant from the French ministry of Research, research project on “Classifications and economic categories in historical perspective”. |
| 2003-2007 |
coordinator of the Research program on “Using judicial archives in economic history, 18th-20th century” |
| 2005-2007 |
British-Academy, French ministry of research, program on Food policies in France and Britain, 18th-20th century (with Peter Atkins) |
| 2009-2010 |
Grant from the French CNRS, research project on “Bonded labour in the Indian Ocean”. |
| 2009-2012 |
participation to the international project on “The global Indian ocean from the antiquity to present days”, leaded by Gwyn Campbell, Mc Gill University, Montreal. |
| 2012-2015 |
coordinator of the project: Bondage in the Indian Ocean World, 15th-20th centuries, with Mc Gill University, funded by the French ANR and the Canadian Research Fund. |
