Biography
I read history in Amsterdam, Paris, and Oxford, before taking up an AHRC-funded doctorate in history at King’s College London.
My research explores international relations, war and diplomacy, financial and economic history, and women’s history in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850.
My doctoral research, entitled Calculated Risk. Collaboration and Resistance in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Netherlands, 1780-1806, explored Dutch financial diplomacy in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era.
Currently, I am working on two projects. First, a study of female management of Dutch banking houses in the era of the consolidation of the Amsterdam capital market. The research explores how female financiers bridged the divide between the various political, financial, and economic interest groups in the Netherlands to contribute to the consolidation and national reorientation of the Amsterdam capital market post-1815. Second, a comparative study of French and British resource mobilisation, financial diplomacy, and war financing in the years 1803-1815, and the normative change to the conduct of international finance resulting from the Franco-British conflict.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Assistant professor | Department of History
- hay@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Mark Edward Hay (2025) - Financing the Louisiana Cession:: Hope, Amsterdam, and the Integration of the Napoleonic Financial Economy. - Napoleonica. The Journal, 9, 7-31 - [link]
- Mark Edward Hay (2024) - Transatlantic Finance in the Age of Revolutions: Hope, Baring, and the Financing of the Sale and Purchase of Louisiana - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-65232-5 - [link]
- Mark Hay (2022) - The Historiographical Legacy of Pieter Geyl for Revolutionary and Napoleonic Studies - [link]
- Mark Hay (2022) - The House of Orange and the Re-establishment of the Dutch Army, 1810-1814 - [link]
- Mark Hay (2021) - Batavian Allies: The Dutch Contribution to Financing the Napoleonic Wars: a Response to Pierre Branda’s “Did War Pay for War?” - Napoleonica. La Revue, (40), 32-51 - [link]
- Mark Hay (2021) - Incorporation, Destruction, Reorganisation. The Dutch Armed Forces between Annexation and Liberation, 1810-1815 - [link]
- Mark Hay (2020) - ‘Making War Pay for War? Napoleon and the Dutch War Subsidy, 1795-1806’ - Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 17 (2), 55-82 - doi: 10.18352/tseg.1102 - [link]
- Mark Hay (2019) - The House of Nassau and the Re-Establishment of the Orange Dynasty in the Netherlands, 1813 - [link]
- Mark Hay (2018) - Book review - Revue Européenne de Droit de la Consommation / European Journal of Consumer Law
- Mark Hay (2018) - Russia, Britain, and the House of Nassau: The Re-Establishment of the Orange Dynasty in the Netherlands, March-November 1813 - Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (online), 133 (1), 3-21 - doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10480 - [link]
- Mark Hay (2016) - Calculated Risk. Collaboration and Resistance in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Netherlands, 1780-1806
- Mark Hay (2016) - The House of Nassau between France and Independence, 1795-1814. Lesser Powers, Strategies of Conflict Resolution, Dynastic Networks - The International History Review, 38 (3), 482-504 - doi: 10.1080/07075332.2015.1046387 - [link]
- Mark Hay (2015) - Selected Bibliography
- Mark Hay (2015) - The Légion Hollandaise d’Orange. Dynastic Networks, Coalition Warfare and the Formation of the Modern Netherlands, 1813-14 - Dutch Crossing: A Journal for Students of Dutch in Britain, 39 (1), 26-53 - doi: 10.1179/0309656414Z.00000000066 - [link]
- Mark Hay (2014) - The Struggle for Self-Government, 1813-1814. The Struggle for Self-determination, 2013-2014. The Dutch Perspective on the Campaign for the Liberation of the Netherlands
- Mark Hay (2013) - The Dutch Experience and Memory of the Campaign of 1812: a Final Feat of Arms of the Dutch Imperial Contingent, or: the Resurrection of an Independent Dutch Armed Forces?
- Mark Hay (2013) - Van Rusland tot Arnhem. De Militaire Operaties in Nederland in de Context van de Zesde Coalitieoorlog: Conflicterende Belangen, Moeilijkheden van Bondgenootschappelijke Oorlogvoering, Zelfredzaamheid
- Mark Hay (2025) - ‘De rol van Amsterdamse bankiers in de aan- en verkoop van Louisiana’ (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Popular - Mark Hay (2025) - ‘Hope & Co.’s Risk Management in the Age of Revolutions’ (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Mark Hay (2025) - Navigating the Atlantic Revolutions: Merchants, Bankers, and the Resilience of the Atlantic Economies, 1775-1825 (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Mark Hay (2025) - ‘Cross-Border Payments in Amsterdam and London in the Early Nineteenth Century’ (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Mark Hay (2025) - ‘The Role of Amsterdam Financial Networks in Financing Napoleon's Wars’ (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Mark Hay (2025) - ‘Amsterdam Merchant-Banking Houses in the Age of Revolutions: Strategic Flexibility, Adaptation, Diffusion’ (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Mark Hay (2024) - ‘Hope and Baring in the Age of Revolutions. War, Economic Crisis, and the Challenges of Corporate Succession’ (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Mark Hay (2024) - ‘Demise or Diffusion? Amsterdam Credit Networks in the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions’ (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Mark Hay (2024) - Financing the Sale and Purchase of the Louisiana Territory: Napoleon, Hope and the Diffusion of Amsterdam Credit Networks, 1803-1814’ (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Mark Hay (2023) - Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) (External organisation) (Member)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Academic
- Mark Hay (2022) - Reconceptualising Napoleonic Resource Extraction for War: Prussia, 1806-1814, and the Provincialisation of France.
- Mark Hay (2018) - Recipient of the 2017 Economic History Society Carnevali Research Grant
- Mark Hay (2018) - Winner of the 2018 Association of Low Countries Studies Essay Prize
- Mark Hay (2010) - Arts & Humanities Research Council Studentship Award
Honours Degree Programme
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4200B
Dutch History in a Globalizing World
- Year Level
- BA-1, BA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH1107
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4050
Bachelor Thesis
- Year Level
- BA-3, BA-3, Pre-master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH3100
International Economic Relations
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH2201
The Rise and Fall of the American Emp.
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4236
Honours Degree Programme
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4200
