Isser Woloch

Isser Woloch
AwardsLeo Gershoy Award (1994)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineFrench history
Institutions

Isser Woloch (born 1937[1]) is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His work focuses on the French Revolution and on Napoleon Bonaparte.

Early life

Woloch was educated at Columbia University (A.B., 1959) and Princeton University[2] (Ph.D., 1965).[3][4]

Career

After teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles, Indiana University Bloomington, and Columbia University, Woloch became a full professor at Columbia in 1975. He was named Moore Collegiate Professor of History in 1998.[1] Woloch was the winner of the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association in 1994.

Selected publications

As sole author

  • Woloch, Isser (1970). Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic Movement under the Directory. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-06183-2.
  • ——————— (1979). The French Veteran from the Revolution to the Restoration. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-1356-0 – via Internet Archive.
  • ——————— (1982). Eighteenth-century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715–1789. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-01506-5 – via Internet Archive.
  • ——————— (1994). The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789–1820s. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-03591-9 – via Internet Archive.
  • ——————— (2001). Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32341-2.[5]
  • ——————— (2019). The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States After World War II. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-24268-3.

As editor

References

  1. ^ a b "Woloch, Isser". Writers Directory 2005. Gale. December 2, 2025. Retrieved December 5, 2025 – via Encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ "Nancy Spelman Is Future Bride Of Isser Woloch; Graduate of Wellesley And Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton Engaged". The New York Times. June 3, 1962. p. 106. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
  3. ^ "Dana Goldberg, David Woloch". The New York Times. October 10, 1999. Section 9, p. 10. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 431268611. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
  4. ^ Loos, Ted (November 5, 2000). "A Biographer of Presidents Tackles an Emperor". Television/Radio. The New York Times. Section 2, p. 12. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 91359053.
  5. ^ Bernstein, Richard (February 28, 2001). "How Staunch Republicans Became a Dictator's Pals". Books of the Times. The New York Times (book review). p. E8. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 431664823. Retrieved February 1, 2011.