Donald James Harreld is a former professor of history with a dual appointment in European studies at
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
(BYU).
Harreld specialized in the
early modern history of the Netherlands
The history of the Netherlands is a history of seafaring people thriving in the lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a militarized border zone of the Ro ...
. He was also the executive director of the
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is a learned society that promotes research on the early modern period. The society is interdisciplinary in membership, welcoming scholars in history, art history, religion, history of science, m ...
from 2008 to 2018. Harreld teaches a course for
The Teaching Company
The Teaching Company, doing business as Wondrium, is a media production company that produces educational, video and audio content in the form of courses, documentaries, series under two content brands - Wondrium and The Great Courses. The compa ...
on economic history.
The Great Courses: ''An Economic History of the World Since 1400''
Harreld holds undergraduate and master's degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...
.
After his early retirement from BYU, Harreld was vice president for the Education Practice Area of the Fedcap Group, a New York City-based international non profit organization. He separated from Fedcap in 2021.
Publications
* "Atlantic Sugar and Atwerper's Trade with Germany in the Sixteenth Century" in ''Journal of Early Modern History
The ''Journal of Early Modern History'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on the early modern period. It is the official journal of the University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History, and is published by Brill since 1997. The ...
'' Vol. 7 (2003) no. 1–2, p. 148–63.
* "Trading Places: The Public and Private Spaces of Merchants in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp" in ''Journal of Urban History
The ''Journal of Urban History'' (abbreviated ''JUH'') is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of urban studies. The current editor-in-chief is David Goldfield, who is Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the Unive ...
'' Vol. 29 (2003), issue 6, p. 657–69.
* ''High Germans in the Low Countries: German Merchants and Commerce in Golden Age Antwerp''. (Leiden: Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers (known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill ()) is a Dutch international academic publisher founded in 1683 in Leiden, Netherlands. With offices in Leiden, Boston, Paderborn and Singapore, Brill today publishes 27 ...
, 2004).
* "'How Great the Enterprise, How Glorious the Deed': Seventeenth Century Dutch Circumnavigation as Useful Myths" in Laura Cruz and Willem Frijhoff, ed., ''Myth in History, History in Myths''.
Sources
Further reading
''The American Historical Review'' article on Harreld's book
External links
FHSS faculty page
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Sixteenth Century Society and Conference web page
Brigham Young University faculty
Wright State University faculty
University of Minnesota alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American historians
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