Renaud Morieux   Jesus College Cambridge CB5 8BL Phone: (44) 1223 339 495 E-mail: rm656@cam.ac.uk

Renaud Morieux is a Lecturer in British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College. Dr Morieux’s research interests centre on the history of Anglo-French relations in the long eighteenth century. His first book was a study of the English Channel as an Anglo-French maritime border between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century. Putting the frontier at the centre of the analysis provides a way of questioning essentialist approaches to identities which reduce social interactions to discourses of national rivalry. The book provides a comparative analysis of the two states' conceptualisation and territorialisation of their maritime borders and emphasises the importance of cross-currents of exchanges. Dr Morieux’s current work attempts to create what could be labelled a transnational history from below. It focuses on eighteenth-century wartime captivity involving Great Britain and France using this as a setting from which one can question how British and French societies experienced conflict, both in Europe and overseas.

At the Centre for History and Economics Dr Morieux coordinates, with Emma Rothschild, Pierre Singaravélou and David Todd, the research project ‘Cordial Exchanges: Britain and France in the World since 1700’. He co-convenes the ‘Qu’est-ce que la Britishness?’ research seminar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sociales (EHESS), Paris, has taught at several universities in France and held various visiting research positions. In 2010 he held a Caird Research Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and during the spring of 2011 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto.

Recent Publications

Books

Une mer pour deux royaumes. La Manche, frontière franco-anglaise XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008.

Articles

‘Les nations et les intérêts. Les manufacturiers, les institutions représentatives et le langage des intérêts dans le traité de commerce franco-anglais de 1786-1787’, in Christophe Charle, Julien Vincent (ed.), La concurrence des savoirs. France-Grande-Bretagne, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011, pp. 39-74.

‘Des montagnes sous la mer. La géologie du dix-huitième siècle et l’impossible distinction entre mers et montagnes’, in Alain Cabantous et al. (eds.), Mers et montagnes dans la culture européenne XVIe-XIXe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011, pp. 127-45.

‘Mare Pacificum. Les îles de la Manche, entre trêves de Dieu et pratiques de neutralisation (XVe-XIXe siècles)’, in Jean-François Chanet, Christian Windler (dir.), Les ressources des faibles. Neutralités, sauvegardes, accommodements en temps de guerre (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Rennes, PUR, 2010, p. 315-37.

‘La fabrique sociale des réseaux migratoires. Les ouvriers du lin entre Cambrésis, Pays-Bas autrichiens et Sussex dans la seconde moitié du 18e siècle’, in Irina Gouzévitch, Liliane Hilaire-Perez (eds.), Les échanges techniques entre la France et l’Angleterre (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Réseaux, comparaisons, représentations, Documents pour l’histoire des techniques, 19, Paris, CDHTE-Cnam, June 2010, pp. 43-57.

‘Diplomacy from Below and Belonging: Fishermen and Cross-Channel Relations in the Eighteenth Century’, Past and Present, vol. 202, 1, February 2009, pp. 83-125.

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