Bailey D. Stone
Professor (Europe, France)
Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3115
bsstone@mail.uh.edu

Dr. Stone is a scholar of French and European History. His research initially focused on the ancien regime and revolutionary period in France, and in particular on the parlements and other high courts of law in the eighteenth century and on French diplomacy in that era. More recently, Dr. Stone has been examining the causes, process, and consequences of social revolution in England, France, and Russia. Dr. Stone received his Ph.D. from Princeton. He has taught at the University of Houston since 1975. Stone has served on numerous departmental committees and founded both the History Department’s Research Colloquium and the Houston-Area Phi Alpha Theta Consortium.

Teaching:
Dr. Stone has taught a variety of European undergraduate courses that include Western Civilization, France, 1750-1815, and Comparative European Revolutions: England, France, Russia. He teaches graduate courses in European Historiography from 1600 to the Present, The French Revolution, Eighteenth-Century and Revolutionary Europe, and The Professional Historian.

Research:
Dr. Stone has written four books and a number of articles on the French Revolution and presented many papers at national history conferences on the dynamics of European Revolution. Stone is currently working on three books: one on the English, French, and Russian Revolutions and the other two on various aspects of post-revolutionary France in its international setting.

Selected Publications:
The Parlement of Paris, 1774-1789 (The University of North Carolina Press, 1981).

The French Parlements and the Crisis of the Old Regime (The University of North Carolina Press, 1986).

The Genesis of The French Revolution: A Global-Historical Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Reinterpreting The French Revolution: A Global-Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

“The Old Regime in Decay: Judicial Reform and the Senior Parlementaires at Paris, 1783-84.” Studies In Burke And His Time 16 (Spring 1975): 245-59.

“Robe Against Sword: The Parlement of Paris and the French Aristocracy, 1774-1789.” French Historical Studies 9 (Fall 1975): 278-303.

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