Patrick O'Brien#
| Membership Number: | 2135 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2002 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - ongoing Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of London, Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Lead Investigator for a Leverhulme Funded Project located at the LSE entitled Economic Outcomes Flowing from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815 (2015-2017)
- 2009 - 2013 Professor of Global Economic History and Principal Investigator for European Research Council Research Project,
- 1999 - 2009 Centennial Professor of Economic History, and Convenor of the Network in Global Economic History (GEHN) at the Department of Economic History, London School of Economics
- 1998 - 1999 Senior Research Fellow and Convenor of the Programme in Global History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London
- 1998 Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of London
- 1990 - 1998 Director of the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of Economic History, London University
- 1990 Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford
- 1984 - 1990 University Reader in Economic History and Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford
- 1970 - 1984 University Lecturer in Economic History and Faculty Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford
- 1967 - 1970 Reader in Economics and Economic History with special reference to the Middle East, London University
- 1963 - 1970 Lecturer at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London University
Fields of Scholarship
- World trade
- Technology and historiographical traditions
- Historiographical traditions in the construction of global economic history
- Evolution of intercontinental trade from Roman Empire to 1846
- Macro inventions and macro inventors in English cotton textiles from Kay to Cartwright
- Economics of European expansion overseas from the conquest of Ceuta to the Imperian Meridian
- Formation and efficiency of fiscal states in Europe and Asia 1500-1914
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the British Academy
- Doctorates honoris causa from Carlos III University Madrid and Uppsala University, Sweden
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- 1999 - 2001 President of British Economic History Society
- 2015 Visiting Fellow American Historical Association
