Dr Marie-Cecile Thoral BA (Hons), MA (DEA), PhD
Senior Lecturer in Modern European History
Summary
I joined Sheffield Hallam in October 2010 after having been a temporary lecturer in France, at the University of Grenoble (2004-2006), a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of York (2006-2008) and a senior lecturer in modern history at the University of Coventry (2008-2010).
About
I defended my PhD in France, at the University of Grenoble, in December 2004, on 'local government and the limits of Napoleonic centralization in 19th century provincial France: the case of the Isère, 1800-1837'. I also passed the French concours of the external Agrégation of History (1999).
Specialist areas of interest
French history during the 'long' 19th century (from the French Revolution to the First World War)
History of local government and governance
History of war (Napoleonic wars, colonial warfare in Algeria)
Imperial history (France and North Africa: Napoleonic Egypt, colonial Algeria and Tunisia)
Environmental history and history of medicine
History of textile and dress
Teaching
Department of Humanities
College of Social Sciences and Arts
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Just beginning a new research on cross-cultural interactions between France and two of its former colonies in North Africa, Algeria and Tunisia, during the 'long' 19th century, focusing on colonial warfare, and on social, cultural and economic interactions in the fields of medicine and pharmacy, textile and dress, and the environment.
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ supported by the Pasold Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Fund on cross cultural dressing in colonial Algeria and Tunisia during the long 19th century.
Collaboration with the Fondation Napoléon (in Paris) for a collective volume on state-building in Napoleonic Europe and an international conference on Waterloo.
Publications
Journal articles
Thoral, M.-.C. (2015). . European History Quarterly, 45 (1), 57-82.
Thoral, M.-.C. (2015). . British Journal of Military History, 1 (2), 8-27.
Thoral, M.-.C. (2015). [Military Knowledge: War Sciences and Army Libraries in France in the 19th Century (c. 1800-c. 1900)]. Gesnerus, 72 (2), 231-249.
Thoral, M.-.C. (2012). . Social History of Medicine, 25 (3), 608-624.
Thoral, M.-.C. (2006). Naissance d’une classe sociale : les fonctionnaires de bureau, du Consulat à la Monarchie de Juillet. Le cas de l’Isère. Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle, (32), 93-110.
Thoral, M.-.C. (2005). Les limites de la centralisation administrative face à la lutte contre les inondations en Isère de 1800 à la fin des années 1830. Revue de géographie alpine, 93 (3), 109-118.
Thoral, M.-.C. (2005). The Limits of Napoleonic Centralization: Notables and Local Government in the Department of the Isere from the Consulate to the beginning of the July Monarchy. French History, 19 (4), 463-481.
Thoral, M.-.C. (2005). L’administration locale en temps de crise : le cas de l’Isère en 1814-1815. Annales historiques de la Révolution française, (339), 117-135.
Book chapters
Thoral, M.-.C. (2012). Small State, Big Society: The Involvement of Citizens in Local Government in Nineteenth-Century France. In The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture. (pp. 59-69). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Thoral, M.-.C. (2012). . In Forrest, A., Étienne, F., & Hagemann, K. (Eds.) War memories : the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in modern European culture. (pp. 114-136). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Thoral, M.-.C. (2011). War and the Economy. In From Valmy to Waterloo. (pp. 147-174). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Thoral, M.-.C. (2011). Troop Morale and Military Unity. In From Valmy to Waterloo. (pp. 99-120). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Thoral, M.-.C. (2011). The War at Sea. In From Valmy to Waterloo. (pp. 45-71). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Thoral, M.-.C. (2011). The Body in War. In From Valmy to Waterloo. (pp. 72-98). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Thoral, M.-.C. (2011). Introduction. In From Valmy to Waterloo. (pp. 1-12). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Thoral, M.-.C. (2011). From Individual Experience to Collective Identities. In From Valmy to Waterloo. (pp. 121-146). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Thoral, M.-.C. (2011). Conclusion. In From Valmy to Waterloo. (pp. 209-217). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Thoral, M.-.C. (2011). Civilians in the War. In From Valmy to Waterloo. (pp. 175-208). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Thoral, M.-.C. (2011). Battle Experience. In From Valmy to Waterloo. (pp. 13-44). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Books
Thoral, M.-.C. (2011). . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Thoral, M.-.C. (2010). . Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.