E&RS Colloquium: Patrimonialism, Capitalism, and Anglo-French Diplomacy, 1688-1783

Jonah Stuart Brundage is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is a political and historical sociologist with interests in state formation, empire, geopolitics, and the history of capitalism, especially in early modern Europe and the Atlantic world. He is currently working on a book titled “Performing World Order: British Diplomats and the Politics of Recognition among Empires, 1688–1783,” which studies how social practices of diplomacy and treaty-making shaped the eighteenth-century British empire. His work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and Comparative Studies in Society and History, among other places.

Co-Sponsored with the Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences (YaleCHESS)