2015 Elmer Louis Kayser Memorial Lecture: Lynn Hunt

Globalization and History: New Paradigm or Trojan Horse?

Lecture by Lynn Hunt, the Distinguished Research Professor & Eugen Weber Endowed Chair in Modern European History at UCLA

In addition to the recently published Writing History in the Global Era (2014), Hunt is the author of Measuring Time: Making History (2008), and, Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion (with M. Jacob and W. Mijnhardt, 2010). She has written extensively on the French Revolution: Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France (1978); Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984); and The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992). She has also written about historical method and epistemology: The New Cultural History (1989); and with Joyce Appleby and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History.