Thomas E. Brennan, Professor

Early Modern France; European Social History

Email:  brennan@usna.edu
Phone: 410-293-6255

Education:

• Ph.D. - The Johns Hopkins University
• M.A. - The Johns Hopkins University
• B.A. - Catholic University of America

Publications:

Thomas Brennan, ed., Public Drinking in the Early Modern World: Voices from the Tavern, 1500 - 1800, vol. 1 France (Pickering & Chatto, 2011).

Burgandy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).

Public Drinking and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).

"Peasants and Debt in Eighteenth-Century Champagne" Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (2006): 175-200.

"Taverns and the Public Sphere in the French Revolution," in Mack Holt, ed. Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History (Oxford: Berg, 2006), 107-120.

"Taverns in the Public Sphere in 18-century Paris," Contemporary Drug Problems 32 (2005): 29-43.

"Production and Consumption of Alcohol in France" in Jack Blocker, ed., Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2003), 1:248-51.

"Coffeehouses and Cafe's," in Alan C. Kors, ed., Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) 1:267-69.

"Town and Country in France," in Stephen Epstein, ed., Town and Country in Pre-Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 250-71.

"Drinking and Drugs," in Peter Stearns, ed., The Encyclopedia of European Social History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001), 5: 89-101.

Reviews:

Reviews published in: The Journal of Modern History; The American Historical Review; The Journal of Economic History; The Journal of Social History; The Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Histoire Sociale/Social History; Law and History Review; Military Affairs; The Social History of Alcohol Review; The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography.