Faculty and Staff
John P. McKay
Professor Emeritus of History
Professor McKay specializes in modern French history, and nineteenth-century European economic and social history. His current research focuses on The French Rothschilds, and European enterprise and the middle classes. Selected publications include Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe (Princeton University Press, 1976); "The House of Rothschild (Paris) as a Multinational Enterprise, 1875-1914," in Alice Teichova et al., Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1986) 74-86; and A History of Western Society, vol.2: 1660 to the Present, 5th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1995). Professor McKay received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968.