David Bell (historian)

David Avrom Bell
Born	November 17, 1961 (1961-11-17) (age 49) New York, NY
Fields	History
Institutions	Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University
Alma mater	Harvard University, Princeton University
Known for	Early Modern History of France

David Avrom Bell is an American historian of France.

David Bell was born in New York City in 1961. He is the son of noted sociologist Daniel Bell and Pearl Kazin Bell.

He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University, finishing in 1991. He subsequently taught at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University, where he was Dean of Faculty beginning in 2007, and at Princeton University since 2010.^[1]

He is also a contributing editor to The New Republic and a regular contributor to several other magazines, including The London Review of Books and Slate.

Books

• The First Total War
• The Cult of the Nation in France
• Lawyers and citizens

References

1. ^ "David Bell". The Department of History, Princeton University. http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=dabell. 

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Name	Bell, David
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Date of birth	November 17, 1961
Place of birth	New York, NY
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