Harvard University, PhD' 90

Professor Pincus is a historian of Britain and its Empire, of comparative revolutions, comparative empires, and of northern Europe more broadly. He is both a deeply committed archival historian and a scholar who believes profoundly that historians should engage with the social sciences. His first book, Protestantism and Patriotism, was an entangled and comparative study of English and Dutch politics, culture, and society in the mid-seventeenth century. He traced the decline of apocalyptic thinking and the rise of notions of political economy in England and the Dutch Republic. His second major monograph, 1688: The First Modern Revolution, offered both a major revisionist account of England's Glorious Revolution and a reappraisal of the literature on revolutions more broadly. He showed that far from being an unrevolutionary revolution, the Revolution of 1688 radically transformed English state and society. 

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