About
Research Director at the CNRS and Director of Studies at EHESS, where he teaches global history. He is the author of several articles and books, including *Capital terre: A Long History of the World After* (12th–21st Centuries) (Payot, 2021) and *The Metamorphoses of Forced Labor* (Éditions de Sciences Po, 2018).
Most viewed articles
Indentured Servitude in Réunion, 1830s–1870s
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2025/3 n° 72-3)
The History of Food Safety and Security
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2004/3 No 51-3)
Doing Away with Sovereignty?
An Interview with Céline Spector and Alessandro Stanziani
- Cross interview with Céline Spector,
- Alessandro Stanziani,
- conducted by Clémence Nasr
- et al.
In Raisons politiques (2024/4 No 96)
The Adulteration of Wine in France between 1880 and 1905: An Example of Fraud in the Food Processing Industry
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2003/2 No 50-2)
Scales of Inequality: Nation, Region, Empire
- By Alessandro Stanziani,
- Translated from the French by Arby Gharibian
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2015/1 70th Year)
Co-authors
Articles
Jutta SCHERRER (December 1, 1938 – August 25, 2025)
In Cahiers d'histoire russe et est-européenne (2025/4 Vol. 66)
Matthew ROMANIELLO, Alison SMITH, Tricia STARKS, eds., The Life Cycle of Russian Things. From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600-Present
In Cahiers d'histoire russe et est-européenne (2025/4 Vol. 66)
Indentured Servitude in Réunion, 1830s–1870s
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2025/3 n° 72-3)
Doing Away with Sovereignty?
An Interview with Céline Spector and Alessandro Stanziani
- Cross interview with Céline Spector,
- Alessandro Stanziani,
- conducted by Clémence Nasr
- et al.
In Raisons politiques (2024/4 No 96)
François Jarrige, La ronde des bêtes. Le moteur animal et la fabrique de la modernité, La Découverte, 2023, 456 pages
[Beef it up: Animal power to shape modernity]
In Histoire & mesure (2024/1 Vol. XXXIX-1 | 2024)
Roger BARTLETT, The Bentham Brothers and Russia. The Imperial Russian Constitution and the St. Petersburg Panopticon
In Cahiers du monde russe (2023/3-4 Vol. 64)
Mark STEINBERG, Russian Utopia. A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities
In Cahiers du monde russe (2023/3-4 Vol. 64)
John LEDONNE, Forging a Unitary State. Russia’s Management of the Eurasian Space, 1650-1850
In Cahiers du monde russe (2022/3-4 Vol. 63)
The statistics of Terror
Foreword
In Cahiers du monde russe (2022/1 Vol. 63)
Feeding the population: A constant challenge
- By Paul Brassley,
- Antoni Furió,
- Alessandro Stanziani,
- et al.
In Le Mouvement Social (2021/4 No 277)
Which is the most appropriate scale for studying labor history of the nineteenth century? Stakes, contribution and difficulties of the global labor history
In Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle (2021/1 No 62)
Joël Glasman, Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs
In Histoire & mesure (2020/2 Vol. XXXV)
Subrahmanyam Sanjay, Faut-il universaliser l’histoire ? Entre dérives nationalistes et identitaires, trad. de l’angl. par Patrick Galliou, Paris, CNRS éditions, « Le nouveau monde », 2020, 144 p., 15 €
In 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire (2021/1 No 149)
My acquaintance with Larissa Zakharova
In Cahiers du monde russe (2019/2-3 Vol. 60)
Jutta Scherrer, Daniela Steila, eds, Gor´kii-Bogdanov et la scuola di Capri
Una corrispondenza inedita (1908–1911)
In Cahiers du monde russe (2018/4 Vol. 59)
Global History of Science and Techniques
In Histoire & mesure (2017/2 Vol. XXXII)
Foreword
1917
Historiography, revolutionary dynamics and disputed remembrance
In Cahiers du monde russe (2017/1-2 Vol. 58)
Measuring the Efficiency of Institutions
In Histoire & mesure (2015/1 Vol. XXX)
Scales of Inequality: Nation, Region, Empire
- By Alessandro Stanziani,
- Translated from the French by Arby Gharibian
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2015/1 70th Year)
Trade Rules or the Ideal of Zero Competition: French Capitalism from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
In L'Économie politique (2013/2 No 58)
Labor, Rights, and Immigration: A Comparison between Mauritius and Réunion, 1840-1880
In Le Mouvement Social (2012/4 No 241)
Defining Product Quality in a Market Economy
In L'Économie politique (2008/1 No 37)
Chayanov, Kerblay, and the Shestidesiatniki: A “Global” History?
In Cahiers du monde russe (2004/3-4 Vol 45)
Sanitary Crisis and the Stabilization of Meat Prices in France, 18th-20th Centuries
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2004/3 No 51-3)
The History of Food Safety and Security
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2004/3 No 51-3)
How the Law Defines the Market
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2004/3 No 51-3)
The Adulteration of Wine in France between 1880 and 1905: An Example of Fraud in the Food Processing Industry
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2003/2 No 50-2)
Between Town and Country
Peasant Households and Occupations in Russian Economic Statistics, 1861–1926
In Cahiers du monde russe (2003/1 Vol 44)
Economic Action and Legal Claims
The Case of Plastering Wine in France, 1851–1905
In Genèses (2003/1 No 50)
Noel Whiteside et Robert Salais (éds), Governance, Industry and Labour Markets in Britain and France
