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David Todd
Room S 8.18 Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1876 and Centre for History and Economics
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David Todd is a Lecturer in World History at King’s College London. His research interests lie in the history of modern France, imperialism and globalization. In his book L’identité économique de la France (Paris: Grasset, 2008), he examined how transnational debates about free trade in Britain, France and Germany facilitated the emergence and growth of a new kind of economic nationalism in post-Napoleonic France and Europe. His current work focuses on a reappraisal of the years 1815-1870 in the history of French and European imperialism. It highlights the importance of continuity and past experiences in the Americas, especially in Haiti, in the development of French expansion in Africa and East Asia after 1815. It also places an emphasis on cooperative emulation rather than conflict between Britain, France and other European powers in the growth of European empires in the nineteenth century. In parallel, David Todd examines the role played by imperial expansion and other extra-European influences in the shaping of modern France since 1800. He was a research fellow at Trinity Hall in 2005-2010, a Mellon postdoctoral research fellow at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics in 2007-2009, and a visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for History and Economics in the spring semesters of 2008-2009 and 2009-2010.
Publications
'A French Imperial Meridian, 1814–1870', Past and Present, February 2011, pp. 155-186.
‘De la théorie aux pratiques du libre-échange : la propagation d’une doctrine d’économie politique par John Bowring, 1820-1860’, in Le concours des savoirs : économie politique, histoire et société civile en France et en Grande-Bretagne au XIXe siècle, eds. C. Charle and J. Vincent (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010).
‘The impôts arabes: French Imperialism and Land Taxation in Colonial Algeria, 1830-1919’, in Studies in the History of Tax Law, vol. 3, ed. John Tiley (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009), pp. 113-38.
‘La liberté, la nation et les colonies dans la pensée économique de Charles Dupin’, in Charles Dupin (1784-1873): ingénieur, économiste, pédagogue et parlementaire du Premier au Second Empire, eds. Carole Christen-Lecuyer and François Vatin (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009), pp. 177-99.
L’identité économique de la France: libre-échange et protectionnisme, 1814-1851 (Paris: Grasset, 2008).
‘John Bowring and the Global Dissemination of Free Trade’, Historical Journal, 51:2 (2008), pp. 373-97.
‘Before Free Trade: Commercial Discourse and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France’, in Worlds of Political Economy: Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, eds. Martin Daunton and Frank Trentmann, (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004), pp. 47-68.