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Gareth Stedman Jones is Director of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge University since 1974. He was Professor of Political Science, History Faculty, Cambridge University from 1997 and in 2010 became Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the British Academy.
He was born in 1942, received a BA from Lincoln College, Oxford University, in 1964, and a DPhil from Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1970. Professor Stedman Jones was a Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford from 1967-70; a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1971-72; a Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Goethe University, Frankfurt from 1973-74; Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge from 1979-86; and a Reader in History of Social Thought at the University of Cambridge from 1986-97.
Research interests include Modern European political thought; Political, intellectual and economic history of Europe from the time of the French Revolution; and Victorian London.
◦ CV
◦ Education
◦ Visiting Professorships
◦ Publications
◦ Books and book length works
◦ Text edition with introduction
◦ Edited books
◦ Chapters in edited books
◦ Articles in journals
◦ Encyclopaedia/Lexicon Entries
◦ Translations of previously published works
CV
Gareth Stedman Jones
Education:
D.Phil. in Modern History,
Nuffield College, Oxford, 1970
'Some Social Aspects of the Casual Labour Problem in London, 1860-90 (with particular reference to the East End)'
B.A. Honours Degree in Modern History, Lincoln
College, Oxford, 1964
Scholar in Residence, Centre for British Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2005.
Directeur d'Etudes Associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Spring 1997.
John Hinkley Visiting Professor, History Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD), 1994.
Visiting Professor of British Studies, Göttingen University, May 1993.
Senior Research Fellow - United Nations University World Institute for Development and Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), July 1990, July and August 1991.
Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York, 1986.
Visiting Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, 1982.
I. Books and book-length works
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, Allen Lane and Harvard University Press, August 2016.
An End to Poverty? London, Profile Books, July 2004. Columbia University Press, 2005.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Harmondsworth, 2002, introduction of 180pp.
Klassen, Politik, Sprache, edited by P. Schöttler, Munster, 1988.
Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982, Cambridge, 1983.
Outcast London, Oxford, 1971 [reprinted with new preface, 1984; reprinted Harmondsworth, 1992; Open University edition, 2002; revised edition Verso 2013].
II. Text edition with introduction
Charles Fourier: the Theory of the Four Movements, translated by I. Patterson, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 1994.
Edited with Douglas Moggach, The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, eds. Gareth Stedman Jones and Gregory Claeys , Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Religion and the Political Imagination, eds. Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Metropolis: London Histories and Representations since 1800, eds. D. Feldman and G. Stedman Jones, London, 1989 [new edition Routledge, 2016].
Culture, Ideology and Politics: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm, eds. R. Samuel and G. Stedman Jones, London, 1982.
‘Karl Marx and the liberty of the Moderns: An Impossible Marriage?’ in La Liberté des Anciens et des Modernes, deux cents ans après Benjamin Constant, Annales Benjamin Constant (450), Institut Benjamin Constant, Lausanne, Éditions Slatkine, Genève, December 2020.
‘When would Capitalism End? Karl Marx’s Changing View of History’ in Karl Marx im 21. Jahrhundert: Bilanz und Perspektiven, Martin Endreß/Christian Jansen (eds.), Campus Verlag, June 2020
‘Karl Marx’s Changing Conception of “The Critique of Political Economy”’ in Pablo Sánchez Léon (ed.), Karl Marx y la Crítica de la Economía Política: Contribuciones a una Tradición, Universitas, October 2019
‘European Socialism from the 1790s to the 1890s’, in The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume I, The Nineteenth Century, eds. Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon, Cambridge, 2019, pp. 196-231.
‘Elusive Signifiers: 1848 and the Language of “Class Struggle”, in Gareth Stedman Jones and Douglas Moggach (eds.) The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought, Cambridge, 2018, pp. 429-451.
‘Millennium and Enlightenment: Robert Owen and the Second Coming of Truth’ in Markets, Morals, Politics. Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought, eds. Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert and Richard Whatmore, Harvard University Press, 2018.
‘L’impossible anthropologie communiste de Karl Marx’, in La Nature du Socialisme. Pensée Sociale et Conceptions de la Nature au XIXe Siècle, eds. Vincent Bourdeau and Arnaud Macé, Presses Universitaires du Franche-Comté, 2017.
‘Scripting the German Revolution – Marx and 1848’ in Keith M. Baker and Dan Edelstein (eds.) Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions, Stanford, 2015.
‘Il Socialismo nella Storia Religiosa Europea’ (The place of Socialism in the religious history of western Europe) in Pensare la contemporaneità: studi di storia Italiana ed Europea per Mariuccia Salvati, Viella, Rome, 2011, pp.113-154.
‘The Young Hegelians, Marx and Engels’, in The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, eds. Gareth Stedman Jones and Gregory Claeys, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 556-600.
‘The return of language: radicalism and the British historians 1960-1990’, in Political Languages in the Age of Extremes, ed. W. Steinmetz, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 331-349.
‘Religion and the Origins of Socialism’, in Religion and the Political Imagination, eds. Gareth Stedman Jones and Ira Katznelson, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.171-189.
With Ira Katznelson, ‘Introduction’, in Religion and the Political Imagination, eds. Gareth Stedman Jones and Ira Katznelson, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.1-22.
‘The Redemptive Powers of Violence? Carlyle, Marx and Dickens’ in Charles Dickens, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ and the French Revolution, Palgrave Macmillan, eds. Colin Jones, Josephine McDonagh and Jon Mee, 2009, pp. 41-63.
'Radicalism and the Extra-European World: the case of Marx’ in Victorian Visions of Global Order: Empire and International Relations in Nineteenth Century Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, ed. Duncan Bell, 2008, pp. 186-214.
‘Marx’s Critique of Political Economy: A Theory of History or a Theory of Communism?’ in Marxist History-writing for the Twenty-first Century, ed. Chris Wickham, Oxford/British Academy, 2007, pp. 140-157.
'Saint-Simon and the liberal origins of the socialist critique of Political Economy' in La France et l’Angleterre au XIXe siècle. Échanges, représentations, comparaisons, eds. Sylvie Aprile and Fabrice Bensimon, Créaphis, 2006, pp. 21-47.
‘Engels and the Invention of the catastrophist conception of the Industrial Revolution’ in The New Hegelians, Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 200-219.
'National Bankruptcy and Social Revolution: European Observers on Britain, 1813-1844', in The Political Economy of British Historical Experience 1688-1914, eds. Donald Winch and Patrick K. O'Brien, Oxford, 2002, pp.61-92.
'The new social history in France', in The age of cultural revolution: Britain and France, 1750-1820, eds. Colin Jones and Dror Wahrman, Berkeley (CA), 2002, pp.94-105.
'Anglo-Marxism, Neo-Marxism and the Discursive Approach to History', in Was bleibt von marxistischen Persepktiven in der Geschichtsforschung, ed. A. Ludtke, Göttingen, 1997, pp.148-209.
'Kant, the French Revolution and the Definition of the Republic', in The Invention of the Modern Republic, ed. B. Fontana, Cambridge, 1993, pp.154-72.
'The Changing Face of Nineteenth-Century Britain', in After the End of History, ed. A. Ryan, London, 1992, pp.30-37.
'The "Cockney" and the Nation', in Metropolis: Histories and Representations since 1800, eds. D. Feldman and G. Stedman Jones, London, 1989, pp.272-324.
‘Millennium and Enlightenment: Robert Owen and the Second Coming of the truth’, History of European Ideas, August 2020.
‘Malthus, Nineteenth-Century Socialism and Marx’, The Historical Journal (May 2019), pp. 1-16.
‘Karl Marx’s Changing Picture of the End of Capitalism’,Journal of the British Academy (6, July 2018), pp. 187-206.
‘The Current Debate about the Significance of Marx’, Global Intellectual History (3/3, 7 February 2018) pp. 297-300.
‘In Retrospect: Das Kapital’, Nature (547, 27 July 2017) pp. 401-402.
‘History and Nature in Karl Marx: Marx’s Debt to German Idealism’ History Workshop Journal (Volume 83/1, 1 April 2017) pp. 98–117.
‘“Pressure from Without” - Karl Marx and 1867’ in Robert Saunders (ed.), Parliamentary History (Volume 36/1, February 2017) pp. 117-130.
‘The genesis of the “Industrial Revolution”: Jean-Baptiste Say and the French debate on Industrie’ in Les idées passent-elles la Manche? Savoirs, Représentations, Pratiques (France-Angleterre, Xe-XXe siècles) PUPS (2007) pp.211-233.
‘Repenser le Chartisme’, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine ‘Où vont les Études Britanniques en Histoire?’ - la Revue d'histoire du XIXième siècle, EHESS (Volume 54, January – March 2007) pp.7-68.
‘An end to poverty: The French Revolution and the promise of a world beyond want’ IHR Historical Research vol. 78, no. 200 (May 2005)
'History and Theory: an English story', Historein: a review of the past and other stories 3 (2001), pp.103-24.
'Une autre histoire sociale', Annales: economies, sociétés, civilisations (1998), pp.383-94.
'”Voir sans entendre”. Engels, Manchester et l'observation sociale en 1844’, Genèses 22(1996), pp.4-18.
'The determinist fix: some obstacles to the further development of the linguistic approach to history in the 1990s’, History Workshop Journal 42 (1996), pp.19-35.
Faith in History', History Workshop Journal (1991), pp. 63-67.
'L'Importance de Londres dans l’histoire de la Grande-Bretagne contemporaine’, Genèses 1 (1990), pp. 47-57.
VI. Encyclopaedia/Lexicon Entries
'Friedrich Engels', The New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
'Raphael Samuel', The New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
VII. Translations of previously published works
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, Allen Lane, 2016: German translation, Karl Marx: Die Biografie, 2017 (S. Fischer); Dutch translation, Karl Marx: Grootheid en Illusie, 2017 (Spectrum); Brazilian translation, Karl Marx: Grandeza e Ilusão, 2018 (Companhia das Letras), Korean translation, (Book 21/Arte), 2018; Greek translation, 2019.
An End to Poverty? London, Profile Books, 2004; French translation, La Fin de la Pauvreté? Un débat Historique 2007 (Collection chercheurs d’ère).
Languages of class: studies in English working class history 1832-1982, Cambridge, 1983: Spanish translation, 1989, Japanese translation, 2010.
Charles Fourier: The Theory of the Four Movements, Chinese Translation, 2003.
Outcast London, Oxford, 1971: Italian translation, 1971, second edition 1980; Spanish translation, 1990; Japanese translation 2004.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, Harmondsworth, 2002, Spanish translation, El manifiesto comunista de Marx y Engels Turner, 2005, German translation, Das Kommunistische Manifest von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels, Verlag C.H. Beck, 2012 .