Essays

“The French Revolution & the Global Crisis of Capitalism,” H-France Salon 13, no. 19 (2021).

« Les compagnies de commerce française et britannique au XVIIIe siècle : rivalités et conciliations, » Une diplomatie des lointains: la France face à la mondialisation des rivalités internationales, XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles, ed. E. Schnakenbourg and F. Ternat (Rennes: PUR, 2020).

“Commerce, not Conquest: Political Economic Thought in the French Indies Company, 1719–1769,” in New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, ed. Robert Fredona and Sophus Reinert (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

“Securing Asian Trade: Treaty Negotiations between the French and English East India Companies, 1753–1755,” in The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century: Balance of Power, Balance of Trade, ed. Antonella Alimento and Koen Stapelbroek (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 267–93.

“Jealousy of Credit: John Law’s ‘System’ and the Geopolitics of Financial Revolution,” Journal of Modern History 88 (June 2016): 275–305.

“War and Peace: Trade, International Politics, and Political Economy,” in Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and its Empire, ed. Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 305–27.

“The Society of Brittany and the Irish Economic Model: International Competition and the Politics of Provincial Development,” The Rise of Economic Societies in the Eighteenth Century: Patriotic Reform in Europe and North America, ed. Koen Stapelbroek and Jani Marjanen (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 73–95.

“Nobility,” in Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime, ed. William Doyle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 111–26.

“War, Diplomacy and Faction,” in The Saint-Aubin Livre de caricatures: Drawing Satire in Eighteenth-Century Paris, ed. Juliet Carey, Colin Jones, and Emily Richardson (Oxford: SVEC, 2012), 95–116.

“Selling American Empire on the Eve of the Seven Years War: The French Propaganda Campaign of 1755–1756,” Past & Present 206 (2010): 121–49.

“Rethinking Enlightened Reform in a French Context,” in Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies c. 1750-1830, ed. Gabriel Paquette (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), 47–62.

“Hume’s Political Discourses and the French Luxury Debate,” in David Hume’s Political Economy, ed. Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind (London: Routledge, 2008), 203–22.

“Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750-1789,” in The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches, ed. Jay M. Smith (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), 111–39.

“Emulation in Eighteenth-Century French Economic Thought,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 36, no. 2 (2003): 224–30.

“The Cultural Politics of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century France,” French Historical Studies 23, no. 4 (2000): 673–701.

“Toward a Reinterpretation of Revolutionary Anti-Nobilism: The Political Economy of Honor in the Old Regime,” Journal of Modern History 72, no. 1 (2000): 35–66.