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David G. Troyansky
 

Ph.D., Brandeis University
Academic Affiliation: Brooklyn College
Office phone: 718-951-5303
E-Mail:troyansky@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Field of Scholarship

Early Modern and Modern Europe, France.

Selected Publications

 

Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989). French translation: Miroirs de la vieillesse ... en France au siècle des Lumières (Paris: Editions ESHEL, 1992).

The French Revolution in Culture and Society, edited by David G. Troyansky, Alfred Cismaru, and Norwood Andrews, Jr., with an introduction and one chapter, "Generational Discourse in the French Revolution," by Troyansky (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991).

Migrances, diasporas et transculturalités francophones: Littératures et cultures d'Afrique, des Caraïbes, d'Europe et du Québec, sous la direction de Hafid Gafaïti, Patricia Lorcin, et David G. Troyansky (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005).

Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World, edited by, Hafid Gafaïti, Patricia Lorcin, and David G. Troyansky (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming in 2009).

Articles and book chapters:

"The Eighteenth Century," a chapter in The Long History of Old Age, edited by Pat Thane (London: Thames and Hudson, 2005), pp. 175-210.

"Personal and Institutional Narratives of Aging: A French Historical Case," in Journal of Aging Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 2003): 31-42

"Aging and Memory in a Bureaucratizing World: A French Historical Experience," in Power and Poverty: Old Age in the Pre-Industrial Past, edited by Susannah R. Ottaway, L.A. Botelho, and Katharine Kittredge (New York: Greenwood Press, 2002), pp. 15-30.

"Alsatian Knowledge and European Culture: Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin, Language, and the Protestant Gymnase in Revolutionary Strasbourg," in Francia, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2000/2001): 119-138.

"'I Was Wife and Mother': French Widows Present Themselves to the Ministry of Justice in the Early Nineteenth Century," in Journal of Family History, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2000): 202-210.

"Memorializing Saint-Quentin: Monuments, Inaugurations and History in the Third Republic," in French History, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1999): 48-76.

Co-authored with Jean-Pierre Bois and Yves Lequin, "Chapitre VI. La Progressive mutation des structures," in Histoire des populations de l'Europe. II. La révolution démographique 1750-1914, edited by Jean-Pierre Bardet and Jacques Dupâquier (Paris: Fayard, 1998), pp. 161-191.

"Limogé for a Year: An American Teaches French History in Provincial France," The History Teacher, 29 (May 1996): 379-389.

Works in progress:

"Entitlement and Complaint: Ending Careers and Reviewing Lives in the French Magistracy, 1814-1853."

"Aging in World History."

 
 
 
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