Donald J. Harreld

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

Harreld specializes in the early modern history of the Netherlands. He was also the executive director of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference from 2008–2018. Harreld teaches a course for The Teaching Company on economic history.[1]

Publications

• "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

1. The Great Courses: An Economic History of the World Since 1400.

Further reading

• The American Historical Review article on Harreld's book

External links

• FHSS faculty page
• BYU bio page
• Sixteenth Century Society and Conference web page