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Jacob Soll
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Associate Professor
Department of History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
311 N 5th Street
Camden, NJ 08102
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Tel: 609-225-2712
Email Address: soll@crab.rutgers.edu
Homepage Address: http://surveys.rutgers.edu/facsurv/html/Jacob_Soll.html
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Highest Earned Degree:
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Ph.D. Magdalene College, Cambridge University, UK, Early Modern European History, October 1998.
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Dissertation:
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The Scholarship of the Saeculum: History, Prudence, and Tacitism in Early Modern France
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Other Earned Degrees, Graduate and Undergraduate:
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D.É.A. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, October 1993.
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B.A. History, minor in French, with Honors and Distinction, University of Iowa, 1991.
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Professional Identification:
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Historian of early modern Europe, with focuses on politics, economy and the cultural history of knowledge and information.
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Description of Research and Scholarly or Creative Objectives:
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My current goal is to write histories of the birth of information culture in the European tradition through an interdisciplinary approach, mixing the histories of science, finance, libraries and politics. I am currently working on two new book projects. The first concerns the role of libraries during the Enlightenment. I examine how scholars, states, and religious entities used libraries as central points for writing philosophy as well as state building. Libraries were central to both Enlightenment and supposed anti-Enlightenment movements. They were also focal points where opposing ideologies and political interests came together. This project is under contract at Yale University Press. My second project is a history of accounting and accountability in early modern Europe. It examines how states and individuals used accounting practices, or failed to do so during the Early Modern period.
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Works in Progress:
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2010: 2009. The Enlightenment Library and the Quest for Universal Knowledge (Yale University Press, forthcoming).
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2009: The Age of Reckoning: A History of Accounting and the Problem of the Modern Age (4th book project in process)
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Books, Other than Textbooks, Including Scholarly Monographs:
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2009: Jacob Soll, The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Secret State Intelligence System (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009).
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2005: Jacob Soll, Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism 1513-1789, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History; paperback 2nd edition 2009.
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Edited Books, Anthologies, Collections, Bibliographies:
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2003: Editor, "The Republic of Letters between Renaissance and Enlightenment," Special Issue of e-journal, Republics of Letters, published by Stanford University.
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2003: Editor, "The Uses of Historical Evidence in Early Modern Europe," Special Issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas, 64 (2003).
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Articles in Refereed Journals:
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2009: Jacob Soll, "From Note-Taking to Data Collection: Personal and Institutional Information Management in Early Modern Europe," Intellectual History Review, forthcoming, (2010).
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2010: Jacob Soll, “The Age of Reckoning: Accounting, Holland and Political Responses to the Seventeenth-Century Crises in Europe 1650-1700,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XL: 2 (Autumn, 2009).
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2009: Jacob Soll, “The Cultural Origins of the Think Tank in Early Modern France: From the Dupuy Academy to Colbert’s Policy Library,” forthcoming as “Die kulturellen Ursprünge des Think Tanks im Frankreich der Frühen Neuzeit: Von der Akademie der Brüder Dupuy zu Colberts staatspolitischer Bibliothek,” Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, 2009.
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2008: Jacob Soll, “J. G. A. Pocock and the Republic of History: Tacitus, Machiavelli and John Adams in the Atlantic Tradition,” Shiso (Special Issue in Honor of J. G. A Pocock in Japanese, February, 2008), pp. 82-107.
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2008: Jacob Soll, “The Antiquary and the Information State: Colbert’s Archives, Secret Histories and the Affaire of the Régale 1663-1682,” French Historical Studies, 31 (2008), pp. 3-28.
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2007: Jacob Soll, “How to Manage an Information State: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Letters to His Son,” in Ann Blair and Jennifer Milligan, eds, “Toward a Cultural History of Archives,” Special Issue of Archival Science, vol. 7, 4 (2007), pp. 331-342.
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2003: Jacob Soll, “The Uses of Historical Evidence in Early Modern Europe,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 64 (2003), pp. 149-57.
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2003: Jacob Soll, “Empirical History and the Transformation of Political Criticism in France from Bodin to Bayle,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 64 (2003), pp. 297-316.
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2002: Jacob Soll, “Healing the Body Politic: French Royal Doctors, History and the Birth of a Nation 1560-1634,” Renaissance Quarterly, 55 (2002), pp. 1259-1286.
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2000: Jacob Soll, “Amelot de La Houssaye (1634-1706) Annotates Tacitus,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 2 (2000), pp. 167-187.
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1997: Jacob Soll, “Amelot de La Houssaye and the Tacitean Tradition in France,” Translation and Literature, 6 (1997), pp. 186-202.
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1995: Jacob Soll, “The Hand-Annotated Copy of the Histoire du gouvernement de Venise, or How Amelot de La Houssaye Wrote his History,” Bulletin du Bibliophile, 2 (1995), pp. 279-293.
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Electronic Publications, Refereed:
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2009: Jacob Soll, “Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Republic of Letters,” Republics of Letters, on-line e-Journal, published by Stanford University, 1 (2009): https://www.stanford.edu/group/arcade/cgi-bin/rofl/issues
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Chapters in Books or Monographs:
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2010: Jacob Soll, “Introduction: Translating The Prince by Many Hands,” to Roberto Del Pol, ed., The First Translations of The Prince (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010).
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2010: Jacob Soll, “A Lipsian Legacy? Neo-Absolutism, Natural Law and the Decline of Reason of State in France 1660-1760,” in Erik de Bom, Marijke Janssens, Jan Papy, and Toon Van Houdt, eds., Unmasking the Realities of Power: Justus Lipsius and the Dynamics of Political Writing in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, 2010).
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2009: Jacob Soll, “Louis XIV and the Golden Notebooks: Reason of State, Political Economy, and the Rise of Royal Information Culture, forthcoming, in Jean-Pau Rubiès and Filippo di Vivo, eds., Exploring Cultural History: Essays in Honour of Peter Burke (London: Ashgate, 2009), forthcoming.
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2009: Jacob Soll, “Machiavelli, Justus Lipsius, and the Idea of Civic Prudence: Tracing the European Fortunes of The Prince 1513-1700,” in Artemio Enzo Baldini, ed., Machiavellismo e machiavellismi nella tradizione politica eurpea (secoli XVI XIX). Una prima ricognizione. Atti del Convegno internazionale di Torino, 8-9 settembre 2005 (Florence: Olschki, 2009).
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2008: Jacob Soll, “Jean-Baptiste Colberts geheimes Staatsinformationssystem und die Krise der bürgerlichen Gelehrsamkeit in Frankreich 1600-1750,” in Arndt Brendecke, Markus Friedrich and Susanne Friedrich, eds., “Information in der Frühen Neuzeit. Status, Bestände, Strategien,” Pluralisierung & Autorität (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2008), pp. 359-74.
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2008: Jacob Soll, “Entre bibliothèquaire et agent d’information: Baluze au service de Jean Baptiste Colbert,” in Jean Boutier, ed., Étienne Baluze (1630-1718): Érudition et politique dans l’Europe classique (Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2008), pp. 79-91.
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2003: Jacob Soll, “Justus Lipsius (1547-1606),” Dictionary of Early Modern History (New York: Scribners, 2003), pp. 513-514.
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Articles in Non-refereed or General Journals:
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2009: "Avoidance by the Numbers: How Accounting Makes Us Unbalanced," New York Times, Op-Ed, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, p. WK 11: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22soll.html
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2009: "Hawking History, Donald Kagan's Thucydides: The Reinvention of History," Book Forum, Dec/Jan, 16/4 (2009), p. 34.
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Professional Awards and Honors:
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2009: Visiting Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge University, October, 2009
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2009: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2009.
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2007: Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2007.
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2005: Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society, 2005.
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2006: Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2005-2006.
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2004: Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2004.
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2000: Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the Best Article Published in the Journal of the History of Ideas in the Year 2000.
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1999: Magdalene College Research Scholarship, Summer 1998.
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1998: Magdalene College Leslie Wilson Research Scholarship, Summer 1997.
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1997: Magdalene College Research Award, Easter Term, 1997.
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1991: Phi Beta Kappa University of Iowa, 1991.
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Fellowships:
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Luso-American Foundation Research Fellowship, Summer, 1998.
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Overseas Research Scholarship, 1995 (3-year tuition fellowship).
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Cambridge Overseas Trust Bursary, 1995 (3-year tuition fellowship).
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Rotary Club Study Abroad Fellowship, 1991.
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Courses Taught:
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Graduate PDR on the History of Culture, Politics and Information in Early Modern Europe, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Fall 2008
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European University Institute, Florence, 2007: Graduate Thesis Supervision and Method Seminars
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Renaissance Humanism and the Cultures of Reformation, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
Western Civilization, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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The Citizen and the State, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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Western Civ II, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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The Quest for Modernity, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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Honors Seminar, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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Statecraft in Early Modern France 1500-1715, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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Readings from the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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Perspectives History Paper and Research Seminar, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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Senior Seminar, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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Louis XIV and Absolutist Culture, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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The Enlightenment and French Revolution, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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Medieval Society, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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Undergraduate Independent Study, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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Graduate Course: Craft of History—Socio-Cultural History and the History of Knowledge, Rutgers University, Camden 1999-2006
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History 347 The Origins of the Modern State (T. Rabb), Princeton, Spring Semester, Princeton University Visiting Lectureship, 1999
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History 361 Culture and Society in Imperial and Soviet Russia (L. Engelstein), Spring Semester, Princeton University Visiting Lectureship, 1999
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History 350 History of France, 1685-1800 (R. Darnton) Fall Semester, Princeton University Visiting Lectureship, 1998, Two supplementary sections conducted in French
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History 211 The Emergence of Europe, Antiquity to 1700 (M. Mahoney), Fall Semester, Princeton University Visiting Lectureship, 1998
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History 341 Mysticism, Heresy and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (T. Ruiz), Spring Semester, Princeton University Visiting Lectureship, 1998
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European Cultural History, 1450-1760, Lent Term, Cambridge University Supervisions, 1997
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English Economic and Social History, 1400-1800, Easter Term, Cambridge University Supervisions, 1997
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The History of Political Thought from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Lent Term, Cambridge University Supervisions, 1997
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Membership on Editorial Boards of Scholarly or Professional Journals:
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2009-ongoing: Consulting Editor, Journal of the History of Ideas
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Associate Editor, French Historical Studies, 2009, three-year term;
Associate Editor, Republics of Letters.
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Editorship of Scholarly or Professional Journals:
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2007: Co-Founder and Associate Editor, Republic of Letters, a journal founded at Stanford University in Collaboration with Professor Dan Edelstein
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Co-Editor and Founder, Book Series: “Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe,” University of Michigan Press
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