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Professor Harvey's primary area of interest is the history of modern France and Germany.

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David Harvey

Associate Professor of History
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
B.A., Rice University

Professor Harvey's primary area of interest is the history of modern France and Germany.  He is the author of Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace, 1830-1945 (2001) and Beyond Enlightenment:  Occultism and Politics in Modern France (2005).  He is currently pursuing a project on French Enlightenment views of human origins and racial difference. 

His course offerings include Modern European History I and II, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Contemporary French History, Modern German History, The Enlightenment, and The Age of Imperialism.

Recent Courses

The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Seminar in European Intellectual History, 1848-1945

Selected Publications

Harvey, D. A. (2001). Constructing class and nationality in Alsace, 1830-1945. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press.

Harvey, D. A. (2001). From anti-militarism to anti-fascism: The Evolution of the Alsatian left between the World Wars. Vienna. 123-131.

Harvey, D. A. (2001). Mothers and breadwinners: Gender and working class identity in Alsace, 1821-1936. Left History, 7(2), 7-27.

Harvey, D. A. (2002). Social vision of the sage: Politics and occult philosophy in Nineteenth Century France. Proceedings of the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association.

Harvey, D. A. (2003). Beyond enlightenment: Occultism, politics, and culture in France from the old regime to the Fin de Si`ecle. Historian, 65(3), 665-694.

Harvey, D. A. (2004). Forgotten feminist: Claude Vignon (1828-1888): Revolutionary and Femme de Lettres. Womens History Review, 13(4), 559-584.

Harvey, D. A. (2005). Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism and Politics in Modern France. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press.

Harvey, D. A. (2005). Fortune-tellers in the French courts; Anti-divination prosecutions in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. French Historical Studies, 28(1), 131-157.

Harvey, D. A. (2006). Applying for a job at a Liberal Arts College. Perspectives on Life After a History Ph.D. (American Historical Association pamphlet series).

Harvey, D. A. (2006). Lucifer in the City of Light: The Palladium hoax and 'Diabolical Causality' in Fin de Si`ecle France". Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 1(2), 177-206.

Contact Information

New College of Florida
Division of Social Sciences
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243-2197

dharvey@ncf.edu
(941) 487-4511

Office Hours

College Hall  231

Tuesday, Friday 10:30 to 11:50 pm

 
 

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