Pierre Claude Reynard

Associate Professor
PhD, York University, 1994

Research Interests

The social, economic, and environmental history of early modern and modern France and Europe. Recent work focused on pre-industrial manufacturing, its techniques and strategies, and relations with the state. Current research centres on attitudes toward the environment, urban expansion, and entrepreneurship.

Publications

Reynard P. C., "Reaching for a Natural Authority: The Rhône in Eighteenth-Century Lyon", in Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Studies in Environmental History for Richard C. Hoffmann, edited by Prof. S. G. Bruce and E. Carruthers (forthcoming, Brill).

Reynard, P. C., Ambitions Tamed: Urban Expansion in Pre-revolutionary Lyon. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, June 2009).

"Probing the Boundaries of Environmental Concerns: Reactions to Hydraulic Public Works in Eighteenth-century France," Environment and History U.K., v. 9, n. 3, pp. 251-273, 2003.

"Environment" and "Weather and Climate," in Dictionary of Early Modern Europe (Editor: Jonathan Dewald, SUNY Buffalo; publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons; 2003).

"Public Order and Privilege. Eighteenth-Century French Roots of Environmental Regulation," Technology and Culture, v. 43, n. 1, 2002.

Histoires de papier. La papeterie auvergnate et ses historiens (Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, France , 2001; 410 p.).

"The Language of Bankruptcy: Explaining Commercial Failure in Eighteenth-Century France," The Journal of European Economic History, v. 30, n. 2, 2001.

"Manufacturing Quality in the Pre-industrial Age - Finding Value in Diversity," The Economic History Review, v. LIII, n. 3, 2000.

"Les mécanismes sociaux d'une perpétuation économique: les papetiers auvergnats B l’époque moderne," Histoire sociale / Social History, v. XXXII, n. 63, 1999.

"Early Modern State and Entreprise: Shaping the Dialogue between the French Monarchy and the Paper Manufacture," French History, v. 13, n. 1, 1999.

"Unreliable Mills: The Maintenance Practices of Early Modern Paper Makers," Technology and Culture, v. 40, n. 2, 1999.

"Manufacturing Strategies in the Eighteenth Century: Subcontracting for Growth," The Journal of Economic History, v. 58, n. 1, 1998.

"Les rôles de taille comme source dans l'étude de l'industrie papetiere d'Ambert au XVIIIe siecle," Cahiers d'histoire, v. XLI, n. 1, 1996.

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Current Courses

  • HIS 1401E-001 - Modern Europe, 1715 to the Present
  • HIS 3413E-001 - France, 1715 to the present
  • HIS 3422G - Ever Closer? The European Union in Historical Context

  • Courses Taught

  • HIS 2403E - Europe & England in the 16th and 17th Centuries
  • HIS 3496G - European Union in Historical Context
  • HIS 9825F - Revolutionary France