Theodore K. Rabb

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Theodore K. Rabb is a historian of the early modern period and is Professor of History at Princeton University.

Along with Robert I. Rotberg, he is also the co-founder and editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History and was also an advisor for the 1993 television series Renaissance.

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Books

  • The Thirty Years' War: Problems of Motive, Extent, and Effect (Boston, 1964)
  • Enterprise and Empire: Merchant and Gentry Investment in the Expansion of England, 1575-1630 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967)
  • The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975)
  • Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993)
  • Jacobean Gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)
  • Emergence of International Business 1200-1800, Volume III: Enterprise and Empire (New York: Taylor & Francis, 1999)
  • The Last Days of the Renaissance & the March to Modernity (New York: Basic Books, 2006)

[edit] As editor

[edit] With Robert I. Rotberg
  • The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays (New York: Harper & Row, 1973)
  • Marriage and Fertility: Studies in Interdisciplinary History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)
  • Climate and History: Studies in Interdisciplinary History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981)
  • Industrialization and Urbanization: Studies in Interdisciplinary History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981)
  • The New History, the 1980s and Beyond: Studies in Interdisciplinary History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982)
  • Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
  • Population and Economy: Population and History from the Traditional to the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
  • Art and History: Images and Their Meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
  • The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)

[edit] with Ezra Suleiman
  • The Making and Unmaking of Democracy: Lessons from History and World Politics (New York: Routledge, 2002)

[edit] Journal Articles

[edit] In the Journal of Interdisciplinary History

  • 'The Historian and the Climatologist', 10 (1980): 831-837
  • 'Coherence, Synthesis, and Quality in History', 12 (1981): 315-332
  • 'The Development of Quantification in Historical Research', 13 (1983): 591-601
  • 'The Interdisciplinary Nature of American History', 16 (1985): 103-106
  • 'The Evidence of Art: Images and Meaning in History', 17 (1986): 1-6
  • 'History and Religion: Interpretation and Illumination', 23 (1993): 445-451
  • 'The Historian and Art: A New Maturity', 33 (2002): 87-93
  • 'How Italian Was the Renaissance?', 33 (2003): 569-575
  • 'Opera, Musicology, and History', 36 (2006): 321-330

[edit] Review Articles
  • 'The Historian and the Art Historian', 4 (1973): 107-117
  • 'The Historian and the Art Historian Revisited', 14 (1984): 647-655
  • 'The Historian and the Art Historian, III: Recent Work on the Seventeenth Century', 20 (1990): 437-444
  • 'Historians and Art Historians: A Lowering of Sights?', 27 (1996): 87-94

[edit] In Past & Present

  • 'Religion and the Rise of Modern Science', 31 (1965): 111-126
  • 'Science, Religion and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries', 33 (1966): 148
  • 'Free Trade and the Gentry in the Parliament of 1604', 40 (1968): 165-173
  • 'The Advent of Printing and the Problem of the Renaissance: A Comment', 52 (1971): 135-140
  • 'The Role of the Commons', 92 (1981): 55-78

[edit] Other Journals

  • 'The Effects of the Thirty Years' War on the German Economy', The Journal of Modern History, 34 (1962): 40-51
  • 'The Editions of Sir Edwin Sandys's "Relation of the State of Religion"', The Huntington Library Quarterly, 26 (1963): 323-336
  • 'Sir Edwin Sandys and the Parliament of 1604', The American Historical Review, 69 (1964): 646-670
  • 'Investment in English Overseas Enterprise, 1575-1630', The Economic History Review, 19 (1966): 70-81
  • 'On Nominalism and Idealism, Historical and Statistical: A Response to Roger Schofield', The Historical Journal, 15 (1972): 788-793
  • 'The Expansion of Europe and the Spirit of Capitalism', The Historical Journal, 17 (1974): 675-689
  • 'Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance', English Historical Review, 118 (2003): 1384-1385
  • 'Observations - Why Michelangelo Matters: His spiritual World has Vanished, But the Master's Quest for Perfection is Rightly Irresistible', Commentary, 122 (2006): 56
  • 'Those Who Do Not Learn History...', Chronicle of Higher Education, 53 (2007)

[edit] Review articles