Professor
Jane McLeod, Ph.D York University, Professor in the History Department at Brock University
Before coming to Brock I was a researcher in Bordeaux, France, for the Archives nationales du Canada and later taught at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Windsor. Now, at Brock University, I teach courses on European history and honours-level and M.A seminars on the French Revolution, Print Culture and the history of censorship. My most recent book, Print, Politics, and Trade in the French Atlantic: The Labottière Family as Eighteenth-Century Cultural Brokers, is a study of a major publishing and commercial family in Bordeaux that participated fully in the expanding Atlantic World of the eighteenth century. My current book-in-progress to be entitled, “Printers Confront the French Revolution: Profits, Principles and Perils,” is a study of state-media relations in the French Revolution. My other areas of research include state-media relations in eighteenth-century France, the application of argumentation theory to history and French maritime history. My previous publications include Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons and the State in Early Modern France (Penn State University Press, 2011) and I am co-author of Amirauté de Guyenne: source de l’histoire de la Nouvelle France (Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1993).
Print, Politics and Trade in the French Atlantic: The Labottière Family as Eighteenth-Century Cultural Brokers (The Boydell Press, 2024).
(with Renée Girard), “Policing Printers and Booksellers before and after 1789: A Case Study in Bordeaux” French History, (2020): 1-21.
“Printer Widows and the State in Eighteenth-Century France,” invited and refereed chapter in Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France, editors Daryl Hafter and Nina Kushner (Louisiana State University Press, 2015): 113-139.
(with Renée Girard), “Religious Books, the French Revolution and the printer Jean-Baptiste Collignon in Metz” Mémoires du Livre/Studies in Book Culture, 6 (2015).
(with H.V. Hansen), “Petitioning the King: The Case of Provincial Printers in Eighteenth-Century France” Argumentation, 26 (2012): 161-170.
Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons and the State in Early Modern France (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2011).
“Evolving Loyalties: A Provincial Printer in Revolutionary Bordeaux,” Mémoires du Livre/Studies in Book Culture 2 (2010).
(with H.V. Hansen), “Argument density and argument diversity in the licence applications of French provincial printers, 1669-1789” in The Practice of Argumentation eds. Frans H. van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005): 321-6.
“Provincial Book Trade Inspectors in Eighteenth-Century France,” French History 12 (1998): 127-148.
(with C. Turgeon and N. Chamberland), Amirauté de Guyenne. Source de l’histoire de la Nouvelle-France. (Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1993), Archival guide.
“The Bordeaux Book Trade to the West Indies at the End of the Ancien Regime,” in Bibliographical Foundations of French Historical Studies, ed. Lawrence J. McCrank (New York and London: The Haworth Press, 1992): 201-215.
“Social Status and the Politics of Printers in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux,” Histoire Sociale-Social History 23 (1990): 301-23.
“A Bookseller in Revolutionary Bordeaux,” French Historical Studies 16 (1989): 262-83.
Editor
(with Leslie Howsam), Editor of Book Networks and Cultural Capital: Space, Society and the Nation, a thematic number of Mémoires du Livre/Studies in Book Culture 2 (2010).