Shepard Bancroft Clough (December 6, 1901 – June 7, 1990) was an American economic historian. He was a professor of European history at
Columbia University.
Biography
Clough was born on December 6, 1901, in
Bloomington, Indiana, and moved to
Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1903.
He graduated from
Colby Academy
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in 1919 and received his bachelor's degree from
Colgate University
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in 1923. He then did his postgraduate work at the
Sorbonne and
Heidelberg. He received his doctorate from Columbia University, where he began teaching in 1928.
During
World War II, Clough was in the economics division of the
United States Department of State and lectured at the U.S. Army School of Military Government at the
University of Virginia.
He became a Knight in the
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and a chevalier of the
Legion of Honour after the war.
Clough was the author of a number of books on European economic history and civilizational cycles.
He was also a visiting professor at
Sciences Po
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and the
University of Grenoble.
Clough retired in 1970 from teaching. He died on June 7, 1990 in
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
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.
References
1901 births
1990 deaths
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People from Bloomington, Indiana
Colgate University alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
United States Department of State officials
Columbia University faculty
20th-century American historians
Knights of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur