Guy Rowlands
Guy Rowlands is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He took his M.A. and D.Phil. at the University of Oxford, and took up his present post at the University of St Andrews in 2005. Between 2013 and 2015 he held a Readership in Early Modern History, and from August 2015 he has been promoted to Professor in History.
Between 1995 and 2005 he held full-time teaching and research positions at the universities of Oxford (Exeter College), Cambridge (Newnham College and the Faculty of History), Durham (Department of History) and (part-time) Bristol (Department of Historical Studies).
His research interests lie principally in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century military, naval and financial history. He has recently published a third book, on the relationship between war and early 18th-century banking, entitled "Dangerous and Dishonest Men: the International Bankers of Louis XIV's France" (Palgrave, 2014). His next book will be a work of grand synthesis for Cambridge University Press, on war, state and society in the European world between 1450 and 1792. His next "deep" work is on the French artillery and arms industries in the 17th and 18th centuries, as part of a much larger enquiry into the relationship between sovereign states, war efforts, para-state organisations and civilian contractors across western Europe in the period 1660-1740.
He was Secretary of the UK and Ireland Society for the Study of French History in 2006-08, and serves on the editorial board of that Society's journal "French History". He was the founding Director of the Centre for French History and Culture at St Andrews in 2005-13, and is the editor-in-chief of the Centre's publication series "St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture". He was chair of the Department of Modern History at St Andrews in 2010-13, and is Deputy Director of the new Institute for the Study of War and Strategy. Since autumn 2013 he has sat on the editorial board of the "Studies in History" monograph series of the Royal Historical Society, and sits on its new series "New Historical Perspectives".
In 2007-08 Dr Rowlands was a visiting scholar at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany, as a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2010-11 he was a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, and took up a Visiting Fellowship at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and is a member of the Money, Power and Print association, of the Contractor State Group, of the Society for Court Studies, of the Society for the Study of French History, of the Fortress Study Group, and of the Ordnance Society.
He is also a public supporter of the Historians for Britain group, which campaigned for a renegotiation of the UK's relationship to the EU based upon a recognition of distinctive aspects of the history of these islands. He was, however, also a supporter of the UK remaining within the European Union.... He is a member of History Reclaimed - a group of diverse historians determined to confront the abuse of history for present-day political ends.
Address: School of History
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9AL
United Kingdom
Between 1995 and 2005 he held full-time teaching and research positions at the universities of Oxford (Exeter College), Cambridge (Newnham College and the Faculty of History), Durham (Department of History) and (part-time) Bristol (Department of Historical Studies).
His research interests lie principally in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century military, naval and financial history. He has recently published a third book, on the relationship between war and early 18th-century banking, entitled "Dangerous and Dishonest Men: the International Bankers of Louis XIV's France" (Palgrave, 2014). His next book will be a work of grand synthesis for Cambridge University Press, on war, state and society in the European world between 1450 and 1792. His next "deep" work is on the French artillery and arms industries in the 17th and 18th centuries, as part of a much larger enquiry into the relationship between sovereign states, war efforts, para-state organisations and civilian contractors across western Europe in the period 1660-1740.
He was Secretary of the UK and Ireland Society for the Study of French History in 2006-08, and serves on the editorial board of that Society's journal "French History". He was the founding Director of the Centre for French History and Culture at St Andrews in 2005-13, and is the editor-in-chief of the Centre's publication series "St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture". He was chair of the Department of Modern History at St Andrews in 2010-13, and is Deputy Director of the new Institute for the Study of War and Strategy. Since autumn 2013 he has sat on the editorial board of the "Studies in History" monograph series of the Royal Historical Society, and sits on its new series "New Historical Perspectives".
In 2007-08 Dr Rowlands was a visiting scholar at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany, as a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2010-11 he was a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, and took up a Visiting Fellowship at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and is a member of the Money, Power and Print association, of the Contractor State Group, of the Society for Court Studies, of the Society for the Study of French History, of the Fortress Study Group, and of the Ordnance Society.
He is also a public supporter of the Historians for Britain group, which campaigned for a renegotiation of the UK's relationship to the EU based upon a recognition of distinctive aspects of the history of these islands. He was, however, also a supporter of the UK remaining within the European Union.... He is a member of History Reclaimed - a group of diverse historians determined to confront the abuse of history for present-day political ends.
Address: School of History
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9AL
United Kingdom
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