Fund Type: Fellowship. Residential: Yes. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; Scholars working on serious projects about French political economy may apply, including advanced graduate students at the dissertation phase of their study..
Award: $2,000-$5,000
Deadline: 3/15/2008
Details: Stanford University Libraries is accepting applications for a short-term research fellowship for scholars wishing to use the Gustave Gimon Collection on French Political Economy, held in the Libraries' Special Collections department. The Gimon Collection contains approximately 1000 titles that concentrate broadly on the evolution of French economics and politics from the late sixteenth to the mid nineteenth century. Because the Gimon Collection embodies a broad definition of political economy and because its materials span the three centuries from 1550-1850, scholars working in fields as varied as History, Literature, Art History, Economics, and Philosophy are invited to apply for an opportunity to work in the collection. The collection is particularly strong in material from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Topics of focus include physiocracy, nineteenth century utopian thought (Saint-Simonianism and Fourierism), workers' rights, and how economic, social, and political thought was applied to issues as varied as religious freedom, political sovereignty, taxation and trade policies, colonial issues, agriculture, and transportation. The scholar will also be able to use other materials held in Stanford University Libraries, which contain rich holdings of French historical works.
Keywords: France, French studies, French political economy, European studies
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