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Faculty of Arts
University of Alberta

Mouré, Kenneth

Dr Kenneth Mouré

(Professor)

2-28 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-4687

kenneth.moure@ualberta.ca

 

 

Expertise & Research Interests

Modern France, Modern Europe, European Economic History

Current research:  Economic regulation and black markets in France, during and after the Second World War.

  

Publications

The Gold Standard Illusion:  France, the Bank of France and the International Gold Standard, 1914-1939 (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2002).

Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962, co-edited with Martin S. Alexander, (New York:  Berghahn Books, 2002).

La politique du franc Poincaré:  perception de l’économie et contraintes politiques dans la stratégie monétaire de la France, 1926-1936 (Paris:  Albin Michel, 1998; revised and augmented ed. of CUP book, also published in Japanese translation by Koyo Shobo, 1997).

Managing the Franc Poincaré:  Economic Understanding and Political Constraint in French Monetary Policy 1928-1936 (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1991; pbk ed. 2002).

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

"Marcel Aymé and the Moral Economy of Penury in Occupied France," French Historical Studies 34, no. 4 (2011):  713-43.

"L'économie en transition:  Comment sortir d'une économie contrôlée?" in Olivier Dard, Hervé Joly and Philippe Verheyde, eds., Les entreprises françaises, l'Occupation et le second XXe siècle (Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire, 2011).

“Vus d’Amérique,” in Dictionnaire historique des patrons français, ed. by Jean-Claude Daumas (Flammarion, 2010).

"Food Rationing and the Black Market in France, 1940-1944," French History 24, no. 2 (2010): 262-82.

“The faux policier in Occupied Paris,” Journal of Contemporary History 45, no. 1 (2010): 95-112.  Winner of the Walter Laqueur Prize, 2010.

“Traitors, trafiquants, and the confiscation of ‘illicit profits’ in France, 1944-1950,” co-authored with Fabrice Grenard, in Historical Journal 51, no. 4 (Dec. 2008):  969-90.

“ ‘Une justice difficile’:  Confisquer les profits illicites du marché noir après la Libération,” co-authored with Fabrice Grenard, in Marc Bergère, ed., L’épuration économique en France à la Libération, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008, 51-68.

“On vit mal:  Food Shortages and Popular Culture in Occupied France, 1940-1944,” co-authored with Paula Schwartz, Food, Politics and Culture 10, no. 2 (Summer 2007), 261-95.

“Economic Choice in Dark Times: The Vichy Economy,” French Society, Culture and Politics 25, no. 1 (2007), 108-30.

“La politique monétaire et la tyrannie de l’or pendant les années trente,” in L’économie française dans la competition internationale au XXe siècle, sous la direction de Maurice Lévy-Leboyer (Paris:  CHEFF, 2006), 169-96.