#  Emma Rothschild 

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 Emma Rothschild is Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University. She is Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics, a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and professeur invitée at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris. She is involved in collaborative research projects, at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard, on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas and on Visualizing Historical Networks. She is also an Affiliated Faculty member at Harvard Law School. Publications include “Economic History and Nationalism” (*Capitalism*, Winter 2021), “A (New) Economic History of the American Revolution?” (*New England Quarterly*, March 2018), "Isolation and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century France" (*American Historical Review*, October 2014), [*Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment*](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674008373) (Harvard University Press, 2001), [*The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History*](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9407.html) (Princeton University Press, 2011), and [*An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries*](mailto:///https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691200309/an-infinite-history) (Princeton University Press, 2021).

 [https://www.infinitehistory.org](https://www.infinitehistory.org/)

 [Honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh](http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/announcement.html)

 [Curriculum vitae](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/files/history/files/er_cv_2019a.pdf)



 

 

 





 

 

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