Contact: Sammy McDavid
An internationally recognized authority on the early modern history of France speaks Wednesday [Oct. 5] at Mississippi State.
Historian and author David A. Bell will lead the Institute for the Humanities Distinguished Lecture Series program. Free and open to all, his presentation begins at 4 p.m. in the university's McCool Hall atrium.
He will discuss his 2007 work, "The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor at Princeton University. Prior to joining the faculty there, the Princeton doctoral graduate taught at Yale and Johns Hopkins universities. (For more information, visit www.princeton.edu/history/people/data/d/dabell/CV.pdf.)
Bell also is the author of "The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800" and "Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France," as well as numerous short writings and essays.
MSU's Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the offices of Research and Economic Development and the Provost. The program regularly features scholars, writers and artists from around the world.