PRICE, Roger 1944-

(Roger David Price)

PERSONAL: Born January 7, 1944, in Port Talbot, Wales; son of Godfrey David (a carpenter) and Martha (John) Price; married Heather Lynne Williams; children: Richard, Sian, Emily, Hannah. Education: University of Wales, B.A. (with first class honors), 1965; University of East Anglia, D.Litt., 1985.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of History and Welsh History, Hugh Owen Building, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DY, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, lecturer, 1968–82, senior lecturer, 1983, reader in social history, 1984, professor of European history, 1991–94; University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, professor of history.

MEMBER: Royal Historical Society (fellow).

WRITINGS:

The French Second Republic: A Social History, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1972.

The Economic Modernization of France, Halsted (New York, NY), 1975.

(Editor and contributor) Revolution and Reaction: 1848 and the Second French Republic, Barnes & Noble (New York, NY), 1975.

1848 in France, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1975.

An Economic History of Modern France, St. James Press (London, England), 1981.

The Modernization of Rural France: Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structure in Nineteenth-Century France, St. James Press (London, England), 1983.

A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France, Holmes & Meier (New York, NY), 1987.

The Revolutions of 1848, Humanities, 1989.

A Concise History of France, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1993, 2nd edition, 2005.

(Editor) Documents on the French Revolution of 1848, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1996.

Napoleon III and the Second Empire, Routledge (London, England), 1997.

The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2001.

People and Politics in France, 1848–1870, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor to professional journals, including Historical Journal, European Studies Review, Journal of European Studies, European History Review, and Economic History Review.

SIDELIGHTS: An "expert on the impact of a widening market on French economic life," according to a Times Literary Supplement contributor, Roger Price has thoroughly studied the economic and social effects of modernization in France in such books as The Economic Modernization of France, An Economic History of Modern France, The Modernization of Rural France: Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structure in Nineteenth-Century France, and A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France.

In The French Second Republic: A Social History, Price presents a commentary on Marx's interpretation of the political events that occurred in France between 1848 and 1852. Price examines the economic and social conditions in France before the 1848 revolution, during the first months of the revolt, and the reactionary measures that prompted the coup d'etat in late 1851. He continues his study of this period of French history in 1848 in France and The Revolutions of 1848.

Price continues his examination of France in the nineteenth century with his 2002 title, The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power. Here Price examines how Napoleon III achieved and held power. For Gary P. Cox, writing in the Journal of Military History, Price's study is a "big, dense and important book that explains the methods by which political power was attained and deployed." C.A. Gliozzo, reviewing the book in Choice, found the book to be "brilliant, comprehensive, and well-researched." Similarly, Eric A. Arnold, Jr., writing in History, thought "this book should prove to be invaluable to serious students and scholars of the French Second Empire for many years to come." Price examines political life in France with his 2004 People and Politics in France, 1848–1870. L. A. Rollo, writing in Choice, judged this a "fascinating reconstruction of political life during the era of Louis Napoleon."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, December, 1972, review of The French Second Republic: A Social History, p. 1457; December, 1976, review of The Economic Modernization of France, p. 1125; December, 1989, Donald Reid, review of A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France, pp. 1402-1403.

Choice, November, 2002, C. A. Gliozzo, review of The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power, p. 544; January, 2005, L. A. Rollo, review of People and Politics in France, 1848–1870, p. 924.

History, summer, 2002, Eric A. Arnold, Jr., review of The French Second Empire, p. 158.

Journal of Military History, October, 2002, Gary P. Cox, review of The French Second Empire, p. 1207.

Journal of Social History, winter, 1985, review of The Modernization of Rural France: Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structure in Nineteenth-Century France, p. 381.

Spectator, March 4, 1972, review of The French Second Republic, p. 360.

Times Literary Supplement, May 26, 1972, review of The French Second Republic, p. 610; July 9, 1976, review of Revolution and Reaction, p. 844; November 25, 1988, review of A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France, p. 1316; August 23, 2002, Sudhir Hazareesingh, "Napoleon III and the Local Vote," review of The French Second Empire, p. 23.

ONLINE

Department of History and Welsh History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, http://www.aber.ac.uk/history/ (August 29, 2005), "Professor Roger Price."