James Cronin
Research Professor
James Cronin
Ph.D.
Contact
Email: james.cronin.1@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D. Brandeis University
Research Interests
Modern Britain; modern European social and economic history; state and society in Europe since 1750; contemporary history; comparative history
Department
Biography
Cronin is Research Professor in History who has long taught British, European, comparative and international history. His research interests have involved the relationship between states and social structures, parties, and the rise and fall of the Cold War world order. His most recent work has been on the fragility of “liberal,” domestically and internationally, in the post-Cold War, neoliberal world. Professor Cronin has long been a local affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, where he currently co-chairs the Seminar on Contemporary European Politics. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the German Marshall Fund and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.
- Global Rules: America and Britain in a Disordered World. (London & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014)
- What’s Left of the Left? Democrats and Social Democrats in Challenging Times, edited with George Ross and James Shoch. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011)
- New Labour's Pasts: The Labour Party and Its Discontents, 2004
"Memoir, Social History and Commitment: Eric Hobsbawm's Interesting Times," Journal of Social History (Fall 2003)
"Labour's 'National Plan': Inheritances, Practice, Legacies," The European Legacy (April 2001)
"The Marshall Plan and Cold War Political Discourse," in Martin Schain, ed. The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After (2001)
"Convergence by Conviction: Politics and Economics in the Emergence of the Anglo-American Model," Journal of Social History (Summer 2000)
The World the Cold War Made: Order, Chaos and the Return of History (1996)
The Politics of State Expansion: War, State and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain (1991)
Labour and Society in Britain, 1918-79 (1984)
Work, Community and Power: The Experience of Labor in Europe and America, 1900-1925 (co-editor with C. Sirianni) (1983)
Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain (co-editor with J. Schneer) (1982)
Industrial Conflict in Modern Britain (1979)