Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and Medieval European Economic History

This essay discusses the intellectual contributions of five Jewish émigrés to the study of European economic history. In the midst of the war years, these intellectuals reconceptualized premodern European economic history and established the predominant postwar paradigms. The émigrés form three dist...

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Main Author: Mell, Julie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2012]
In: Religions
Year: 2012, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 556-587
Further subjects:B Robert Lopez
B Karl Polanyi
B Toni Oelsner
B European economic history
B Guido Kisch
B Michael Postan
B Jewish émigrés
B medieval economic history
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