Nicolas Barreyre

Nicolas Barreyre is maître de conférences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and a visiting researcher at MFO during Michaelmas term. He is a historian of the United States, focusing on political economy, the political history of money, and the role of the state. His first book, Gold and Freedom: The Political Economy of Reconstruction (2015) retraces how economic issues divided the country regionally and how this had a profound impact on the political Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. He co-directed an international research project on the political dimension of public debts in the longue durée, published in A World of Public Debts: A Political History (2020), co-edited with Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po). He is currently writing a history of American public debts, and their role in shaping the state and capitalism.

N. Barreyre has also co-directed a large international project on writing US history from Europe, with Stephen Tuck (Oxford), Michael Heale (Lancaster) and Cécile Vidal (EHESS): Historians Across Borders: Writing American History in a Global Age (2014).

He is a member of the editorial board of Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, and co-editor of its English Edition.