Professor Roger Price


BA (Wales), D.Litt (E.Anglia) Photograph of Professor Roger Price.

Contact

Email: rdp@aber.ac.uk
Office: C47
Phone: 2669

Biography

Professor Roger Price  BA (Wales), D.Litt (E.Anglia), a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, has written extensively on 19th-century Europe especially on French History.   In addition to numerous articles, he has published the following books - The French Second Republic: a social history (1972);1848 in France, (1975); The Economic Modernisation of France, c.1730-1880, (1975); (ed) Revolution and Reaction: 1848 and the Second French Republic, (1975); An Economic History of Modern France, c.1730-1914 (1981); The Modernisation of Rural France: communication networks and agricultural market structures in the 19th century (1983); A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987); The Revolutions of 1848(1988); A Concise History of France (1993); Documents on the French Revolution of 1848(1996); and Napoleon III and the Second Empire (1997).  His most recent publications include three books published by Cambridge University Press - a substantially revised and enlarged second edition of the Concise History of France, (2005); The French Second Empire: an anatomy of political power (2001) and People and Politics in France, 1848-1870, (2004).  A work entitled ‘Fear of God is the basis of social order’: the Roman Catholic Church and counter-revolution in nineteenth century France is approaching completion.

Current research includes a study of the nineteenth century communications revolution and work on  technological innovation and industrialisation in France, c.1770-1914.  Professor Price is happy to supervise research on most aspects of 19th-century French and comparative history.