George Sheridan
Biographical Information
- Associate Professor, specializing in the History of France, Economic History of Europe, Modern Europe
- A.B. 1969, Princeton
- M.Ph. 1973, Yale
- M.A. 1974, Yale
- Ph.D. 1978, Yale
- With the U of O since 1976
Publications
- « Les échos de L’Echo: L’héritage de L’Echo de la fabrique (1834-1870), » in L’Echo de la fabrique : naissance de la presse ouvrière á Lyon, 1831-1834 ed. Ludovic Frobert. Lyon: ENS Editions [in press].
- “Craft Technique, Association and Guild History: The Silk Weavers of Nineteenth-Century Lyon,” in Guilds and Association in Europe, 900 – 1900 eds. Ian A. Gadd and Patrick Wallis, 147-168. London: Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, 2006.
- Engaging Europe: Rethinking the New Europe, edited with Evlyn Gould. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
- "Corporatism, Association, and the Language of Labor in France, 1750-1850," with Lynn Hunt. The Journal of Modern History 58 (December 1986): 813-44.
- The Social and Economic Foundations of Association among the Silk Weavers of Lyon, 1852-1870. 2 vols. New York: Arno Press, 1981.
Research
- Association, social movements, and social ideologies of Lyon silk weavers; economy, technology, and invention in the Lyon silk industry: intellectual and cultural history of 19th-century Lyon; French artisan autobiography; history of the idea of Europe
- “Teaching EU History,” EUSA Review Volume 23, No. 1 (Winter 2010): 19-23