Anne Goldgar is an American historian, author and academic, specializing in seventeenth and eighteenth century European cultural and social history, and of Francophone culture across Europe. She holds the inaugural Van Hunnick Chair in European History at the
University of Southern California Dornsife.
She was previously
Professor
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of
early modern history at
King's College London, UK. In 2016/7 she was a Descartes Theme Group Fellow at the
.
Education
She is a graduate of
Princeton University
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and received her
PhD and M.A. from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
.
Her dissertation was entitled: ''Gentlemen and Scholars: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750''.
Works
She is the author and editor of several books including: ''Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age'' (Chicago University Press, 2008).
In his review, Simon Kuper states that: 'Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: "Most of what we have heard of
ulipmaniais not true.". . . She tells a new story.' (''Financial Times).''
In 1995, she published ''Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750'' (Yale University Press). She is the editor of ''Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society'', along with Robert Frost (Brill Academic Publishers, 2004).
She published the peer-reviewed article, 'The British Museum and the Virtual Representation of Culture in the Eighteenth Century',
Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies', 2000, Vol.32 (2), p. 195-231.
Bibliography
* ''Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)
* 'The
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...
and the Virtual Representation of Culture in the Eighteenth Century', ''Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies'', vol. 32, no. 2 (Summer, 2000) 195-231
* ''Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society'' (Leiden: Brill, 2004)
* 'Poelenburch's Garden: Art, Flowers, Networks, and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Holland', ''In His Milieu: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Memory of John Michael Montias'', edited by A. Golahny et al. (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2006) 183–192
* ''Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)
* 'Wine as a Luxury at the Dutch Factory in Japan during the Second Half of the 18th Century', ''Luxury in the Low Countries: Miscellaneous Reflections on Netherlandish Material Culture, 1500 to the Present'', edited by
Rengenier C. Rittersma (Brussels: Pharo, 2010)
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academics of King's College London
University of Southern California faculty
Princeton University alumni
Harvard University alumni