Donald J. Harreld

Donald James Harreld is a former professor of history with a dual appointment in European studies at Brigham Young University (BYU). He completed his senior education from University of Minnesota.

Harreld specializes in the early modern history of the Netherlands. He has also been the executive director of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference since 2008. 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

• FHSS faculty page
• BYU bio page
• Sixteenth Century Society and Conference web page
• The American Historical Review article on Harreld's book