David S. Landes (1924–2013)
Forfatter af The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor
Om forfatteren
David S. Landes was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 29, 1924. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1942. He received a master's degree in history in 1943 and a Ph.D. in history in 1953 from Harvard University. During World War II, he was drafted into the Army and was assigned to vis mere the Signal Corps because he had been taking mail-order courses in cryptanalysis. He worked on deciphering Japanese messages about the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. He later worked on a history of German preparations for the invasion of Normandy. His dissertation, Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt, became his first book. His other works included Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, and Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses. He taught at numerous universities during his lifetime including Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard University, where he retired in 1996. He died on August 17, 2013 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: L'historien américain David Landes à Paris en décembre 1987
Værker af David S. Landes
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (1969) 308 eksemplarer
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times (2010) — Redaktør — 65 eksemplarer
Associated Works
Le capitalisme familial, logiques et trajectoires: actes de la journée d'études de Besançon… (2004) — Efterskrift — 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Landes, David S.
- Juridisk navn
- Landes, David Saul
- Fødselsdato
- 1924-04-29
- Dødsdag
- 2013-08-17
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (til kort)
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA
- Bopæl
- Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA
- Uddannelse
- City College of New York (AB | 1942)
Harvard University (MA | 1943 | PhD | 1953) - Erhverv
- professor
economic historian - Relationer
- Landes, Richard Allen (son)
Postan, M. M. (teacher)
McKay, Donald C. (teacher)
Cole, Arthur H. (teacher)
Usher, A. P. (teacher)
Landes, Sonia (wife) - Organisationer
- Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley
Columbia University
Economic History Association
Society for French Historical Studies
Economic History Society (President, 1976-77) (vis alle 13)
Societe d'Histoire Moderne
Association for the Study of Middle East and Africa
American Historical Association
Koninklijke Academie van Belgie
Accadémia dei Lincei
Gesellschaft für Sozial-und Wirtschaftgeschichte
United States Army (1943-1946) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Corresponding Fellow, British Academy (1977)
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1967)
Fellow, American Philosophical Society (1982)
National Academy of Sciences (1983)
Academia Europaea (1997) (vis alle 8)
Leonardo da Vinci Prize (2004)
First Laureate, Prix Européen du Livre d'Economie (2000) - Agent
- Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
- Kort biografi
- David Landes received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953. He taught economics at Columbia University (1952-58) and economics and history at the University of California, Berkeley (1958-64) before returning to Harvard as a professor of history in 1964. He has taught at Harvard ever since as professor of history (1964-72), Roy B. Williams Professor of History and Politics (1972-75), Robert Walton Gallet Professor of French History (1975-81) and Coolidge Professor of History (1981-1997), Emeritus (1997-). Early on, Dr. Landes established his reputation through studies on nineteenth century French and German banking, the best known of which was a study of French investment in Egypt. He is the author of numerous books, including The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe, 1750 to the Present (1969), The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998), Revolution in Time (2000), and Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses (2006). In addition to his distinguished career at Harvard, Dr. Landes also presided over the Economic History Association and chaired the Council on Research in Economic History. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1982. David Landes died August 17, 2013, at the age of 89 in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
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