Donald James Harreld is a former professor of history with a dual appointment in European studies at Brigham Young University (BYU).[1]

Harreld specialized in the early modern history of the Netherlands. He was also the executive director of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference from 2008 to 2018. Harreld teaches a course for The Teaching Company on economic history.[2] Harreld holds undergraduate and master's degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. 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

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  • "Atlantic Sugar and Atwerper's Trade with Germany in the Sixteenth Century" in Journal of Early Modern History 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 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, 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

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  1. ^ "Donald Harreld". History. Brigham Young University. Archived from the original on 8 July 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  2. ^ The Great Courses: An Economic History of the World Since 1400.

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