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Nathaniel Wolloch

I'm an Israeli historian and author, currently teaching as a visiting lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. I'm interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Europe c. 1600 - c. 1850, with an emphasis on the Enlightenment, the history of attitudes toward nature and animals, the history of historiography, art history, economic thought, and major figures such as Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Thomas Babington Macaulay.

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Books by Nathaniel Wolloch

Research paper thumbnail of Macaulay and the Enlightenment (Boydell Press 2022)

Macaulay and the Enlightenment, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Moderate and Radical Liberalism: The Enlightenment Sources of Liberal Thought (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022).

Research paper thumbnail of The Enlightenment’s Animals: Changing Conceptions of Animals in the Long Eighteenth Century (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019).

Research paper thumbnail of Nature in the History of Economic Thought: How Natural Resources Became an Economic Concept (London and New York: Routledge, 2017).

Research paper thumbnail of History and Nature in the Enlightenment: Praise of the Mastery of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature (Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011).

Research paper thumbnail of Subjugated Animals: Animals and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern European Culture (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books / Prometheus Books, 2006).

Papers by Nathaniel Wolloch

Research paper thumbnail of “Robert Coram and the European Sources of Radical Enlightenment in America,” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 43(3) (2020), 367-83.

Research paper thumbnail of “Adam Smith and the Concept of Natural Capital,” Ecosystem Services, 43 (June 2020), 1-5 (separately paginated).

Research paper thumbnail of “Edward Gibbon’s Autobiographies and the Historicist Critique of Enlightenment Historiography,” Partial Answers, 17(1) (2019), 1-22.

Research paper thumbnail of "Before the Tragedy of the Commons: Early Modern Economic Considerations of the Public Use of Natural Resources," "Theoretical Inquiries in Law," 19 (2018), 409-424.

Research paper thumbnail of WILLIAM ROBERTSON ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND CULTURAL CONTACTS IN COLONIAL AMERICA

Key to the Scottish conception of historical progress was the famous four-stages theory, claiming... more Key to the Scottish conception of historical progress was the famous four-stages theory, claiming that all societies, given the proper natural surroundings, would progress from a hunting stage, to a shepherding (pastoral), agricultural, and finally the commercial stage found in modern advanced societies. Scholars have long recognized that each stage was characterized by the development of new modes of acquiring subsistence. What has not been sufficiently emphasized, however, is that stadial theory entailed growing sophistication in utilizing natural resources, thus enhancing the Enlightenment's emphasis on the mastery of nature. The purpose of the present paper is not to revisit these well-studied aspects of Scottish Enlightenment thought, but rather to investigate their intersection. Scholars to date have devoted little attention to how these two topics were often mutually at play in discussions of the progress, or lack thereof, of non-Europeans. This was particularly evident in the thought of Robertson, and to a certain extent also Smith. A belief in the inherent universal propensity of all human societies to progress in a similar manner under similar geographical and climatic conditions was a mainstay of eighteenth-century thought, and particularly of the Scottish Enlightenment outlook. 1 Key to the Scottish conception of historical progress was the famous four-stages theory, claiming that all societies, given the proper natural surroundings, would progress from a hunting stage, to a shepherding (pastoral),

Research paper thumbnail of "Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the Modern Debate on the Enlightenment," "European Legacy," 23(4) (2018), 349-64.

Research paper thumbnail of “The Idea of Historical Progress in the Transition from Enlightenment Historiography to Classical Political Economy,” The Adam Smith Review, vol. 9 (2017), 75-87.

Research paper thumbnail of “Natural Disasters and the Debate on the Unity or Plurality of Enlightenments,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 57, no. 3 (Fall 2016), 325-342.

Research paper thumbnail of Adam Smith's economic and ethical consideration of animals

History of the Human Sciences, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of “Barbarian Tribes, American Indians and Cultural Transmission: Changing Perspectives from the Enlightenment to Tocqueville,” History of Political Thought, vol. 34, no. 3 (Autumn 2013), 507-539.

Research paper thumbnail of “The Liberal Origins of the Modern View of Nature,” The Tocqueville Review, vol. 34, no. 2 (2013), 107-131.

Research paper thumbnail of “The Limits of Enlightenment Sensitivity to the Suffering of Animals,” in Knowledge and Pain, eds. Esther Cohen, Leona Toker, Manuela Consonni and Otniel E. Dror (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012), 123-144.

Research paper thumbnail of “Animals in Enlightenment Historiography,” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1 (March 2012), 53-68.

Research paper thumbnail of “The Civilizing Process, Nature, and Stadial Theory,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 44, no. 2 (Winter 2011), 245-259.

Research paper thumbnail of Macaulay and the Enlightenment (Boydell Press 2022)

Macaulay and the Enlightenment, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Moderate and Radical Liberalism: The Enlightenment Sources of Liberal Thought (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022).

Research paper thumbnail of The Enlightenment’s Animals: Changing Conceptions of Animals in the Long Eighteenth Century (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019).

Research paper thumbnail of Nature in the History of Economic Thought: How Natural Resources Became an Economic Concept (London and New York: Routledge, 2017).

Research paper thumbnail of History and Nature in the Enlightenment: Praise of the Mastery of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature (Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011).

Research paper thumbnail of Subjugated Animals: Animals and Anthropocentrism in Early Modern European Culture (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books / Prometheus Books, 2006).

Research paper thumbnail of “Robert Coram and the European Sources of Radical Enlightenment in America,” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 43(3) (2020), 367-83.

Research paper thumbnail of “Adam Smith and the Concept of Natural Capital,” Ecosystem Services, 43 (June 2020), 1-5 (separately paginated).

Research paper thumbnail of “Edward Gibbon’s Autobiographies and the Historicist Critique of Enlightenment Historiography,” Partial Answers, 17(1) (2019), 1-22.

Research paper thumbnail of "Before the Tragedy of the Commons: Early Modern Economic Considerations of the Public Use of Natural Resources," "Theoretical Inquiries in Law," 19 (2018), 409-424.

Research paper thumbnail of WILLIAM ROBERTSON ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND CULTURAL CONTACTS IN COLONIAL AMERICA

Key to the Scottish conception of historical progress was the famous four-stages theory, claiming... more Key to the Scottish conception of historical progress was the famous four-stages theory, claiming that all societies, given the proper natural surroundings, would progress from a hunting stage, to a shepherding (pastoral), agricultural, and finally the commercial stage found in modern advanced societies. Scholars have long recognized that each stage was characterized by the development of new modes of acquiring subsistence. What has not been sufficiently emphasized, however, is that stadial theory entailed growing sophistication in utilizing natural resources, thus enhancing the Enlightenment's emphasis on the mastery of nature. The purpose of the present paper is not to revisit these well-studied aspects of Scottish Enlightenment thought, but rather to investigate their intersection. Scholars to date have devoted little attention to how these two topics were often mutually at play in discussions of the progress, or lack thereof, of non-Europeans. This was particularly evident in the thought of Robertson, and to a certain extent also Smith. A belief in the inherent universal propensity of all human societies to progress in a similar manner under similar geographical and climatic conditions was a mainstay of eighteenth-century thought, and particularly of the Scottish Enlightenment outlook. 1 Key to the Scottish conception of historical progress was the famous four-stages theory, claiming that all societies, given the proper natural surroundings, would progress from a hunting stage, to a shepherding (pastoral),

Research paper thumbnail of "Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the Modern Debate on the Enlightenment," "European Legacy," 23(4) (2018), 349-64.

Research paper thumbnail of “The Idea of Historical Progress in the Transition from Enlightenment Historiography to Classical Political Economy,” The Adam Smith Review, vol. 9 (2017), 75-87.

Research paper thumbnail of “Natural Disasters and the Debate on the Unity or Plurality of Enlightenments,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 57, no. 3 (Fall 2016), 325-342.

Research paper thumbnail of Adam Smith's economic and ethical consideration of animals

History of the Human Sciences, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of “Barbarian Tribes, American Indians and Cultural Transmission: Changing Perspectives from the Enlightenment to Tocqueville,” History of Political Thought, vol. 34, no. 3 (Autumn 2013), 507-539.

Research paper thumbnail of “The Liberal Origins of the Modern View of Nature,” The Tocqueville Review, vol. 34, no. 2 (2013), 107-131.

Research paper thumbnail of “The Limits of Enlightenment Sensitivity to the Suffering of Animals,” in Knowledge and Pain, eds. Esther Cohen, Leona Toker, Manuela Consonni and Otniel E. Dror (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012), 123-144.

Research paper thumbnail of “Animals in Enlightenment Historiography,” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1 (March 2012), 53-68.

Research paper thumbnail of “The Civilizing Process, Nature, and Stadial Theory,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 44, no. 2 (Winter 2011), 245-259.

Research paper thumbnail of “History ‘On a New Plan’: Robert Henry (1718-1790) and the Rise of Interdisciplinary Historiography,” Storia della Storiografia, vol. 58 (2010), 35-52.

Research paper thumbnail of “Edward Gibbon’s Cosmology,” International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 17, no. 2 (June 2010), 165-177.

Research paper thumbnail of “The Turkish Spy and Eighteenth-Century British Theriophily,” Eighteenth-Century Thought, vol. 4 (2009), 67-85.

Research paper thumbnail of Joseph de Guignes and Enlightenment Notions of Material Progress

Intellectual History Review, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of William Smellie and Enlightenment Anti-Anthropocentrism

Eighteenth-Century Life, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Rousseau and the Love of Animals

Philosophy and Literature, 2008

This article examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau's views on the need for an ethical treatment of a... more This article examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau's views on the need for an ethical treatment of animals, placing them within the context of the early modern debate on this topic, and the tradition of "love of animals" known as "theriophily." It discusses the broad extent of Rousseau's views on this issue, and their importance, specifically because of his wide influence. However, an

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