James D. Hardy, Jr.

James D. Hardy, Jr. is the former Associate Dean of the Louisiana State University Honors College and a Professor of History at LSU since 1967. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Hardy's specialty is early modern European history, but has published works in varying fields from Geopolitics to the history of Baseball.

Hardy teaches Western Civilization, Constitutional Law, and Geopolitics at LSU. Hardy's father, James D. Hardy, Sr., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins; physics), was a distinguished professor and researcher at Yale.

Bibliograpy

Books

*"Baseball and the Mythic Moment: How We Remember the National Game" (McFarland & Co., 2006)
*"The New York Giants Base Ball Club: The Growth of a Team and a Sport, 1870 to 1900" (McFarland & Co., 2006)
*"Milton and the Hermeneutic Journey" (LSU Press, 1994)
*"Interpretting Nikolai Gogol Within Russian Orthodoxy: A Neglected Influence on the First Great Russian" (Ewdin Mellen, 2006)
*"Age of Iron: English Renaissance Tropologies of Love and Power" (LSU Press)
*"Prologue to Modernity: early modern Europe" (John Wiley & Sons, New York)
*"Judicial Politics in the Old Regime: the Parlement of Paris during the Regency" (LSU Press, 1967)
*"The Western World: the development of modern civilization" (Random House, 1974)

Recent Articles

*War, Peace and Oil in Iraq (with Leonard Hochberg, Ph.D.) New Mexico Independent Research Institute

*Creating Democracy in Iraq? (with Leonard Hochberg, Ph.D.) New Mexico Independent Research Institute

*Palestinian Community (with Leonard Hochberg, Ph.D.) New Mexico Independent Research Institute
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Introductions

*"Crime and Punishment" by Nikolai Gogol (Signet Book, 1999)

Works in Progress

#Hardy is currently writing a biography of Vladimir Nabokov, author of "Lolita". Nabokov taught Hardy at Cornell in the 1950s.

#Hardy is currently authoring a book on slave and chattel law, with a concentration on Alabama.