William S. Cormack
Professor
College of Arts, Department of History
Education
Ph.D. Queen's University, 1992
M.A. Carleton University, 1985
B.A. University of Calgary, 1983
Professional
University of Guelph, 1998-
University of Saskatchewan, 1997-1998
Royal Military College of Canada, 1996-1997
Queen's University, 1992-1993, 1995-1997
Research
French revolutionary politics: the collapse of the Constiution of 1791
The French Revolution in France's Caribbean colonies,
especially in the Lesser Antilles
The French Navy during the Revolutionary period
areas of research for graduate supervision
The French Revolution
Modern Europe
War and Society
Revolutions and Revolutionaries in the modern world
Publications
Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies: The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019).
"Defending the Liberal Revolution in France: Provincial Reactions to the Parisian journée of 20 June 1792," Candian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire, vol. 53, no. 2 (2018), 233-53.
"Modernization and the Ambiguity of the French Revolution." In Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750 - 1850: Selected Papers (1999), 7-10.
"Victor Hugues and the Reign of Terror on Guadeloupe, 1794-1798." Essays in French Colonial History: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society (1997): 31-41.
"Legitimate Authority in Revolution and War: The French Navy in the West Indies, 1789 - 1793." The International History Review 18, no. 1 (1996): 1-27
Revolution and Political Conflict in the French Navy 1789-1794. (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
"The French Navy and the Revolt of Martinique and Guadeloupe in 1792-93." Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850: Selected Papers (1994): 237-243
"Royalist Traitor or Anguished Patriot? Admiral Trogoff and the Surrender of the Toulon Fleet in 1793." Proceedings, Western Society for French History 20 (1993): 177-187.
"The French Navy and the Struggle for Revolutionary Authority: The Mutiny of the Brest Fleet in 1793." Canadian Journal of History 27, no. 1 (1992): 29-45.
"Revolutionary Conflict in the French Navy: The Court Martial of Captain Basterot." Proceedings, The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850, 19 (1989): 753-759