John U Nef

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ID	248826
NAME	John U Nef
GIVEN NAMES	John U
FAMILY NAME	Nef
SIGNATURE	NEF J U
AFFILIATIONS	University of Chicago
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	61
TOTAL CITATIONS	79
AUTHOR COUNT	61
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1930
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2022
H-INDEX	5

Silver Production in Central Europe, 1450—1618
John U NefCHAPTERMetals and Monies in an Emerging…2022
The history of silver is one of the few topics treated by economic historians which has caught the attention of civil servants, of other administrators, and of students of economics. During the Middle Ages and until the thirties of the sixteenth century most of the supplies for all the European countries had come from Germany and from other parts of the disintegrating Holy Roman Empire to the south and east. Adolf Soetbeer’s enterprising work on …
Towards World Community
John U Nef, John NefBOOKTowards World Community2013
Mining and Metallurgy in Medieval Civilisation
Open AccessJohn U NefCHAPTERThe Cambridge economic history of…1987
Nature endowed Europe with extraordinarily varied and abundant mineral resources. The conquest of this underground wealth by the western peoples has been inseparable from the unprecedented power obtained by men in recent centuries over the physical world.
The rise of the coal industry and its place in integral history
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography1982
Estados Unidos y la civilización
G Martins, G Martin et al.ARTICLERevista española de la opinión…1972
La conquista del mundo material. Estudios sobre el surgimiento del industrialismo
Open AccessMargarita B Pontieri, John U Nef et al.ARTICLEDesarrollo Económico1969
The Conquest of the Material World. Essays on the Coming of Industrialism
W O Henderson, John U NefARTICLEThe Economic History Review1966
The Conquest of the Material World
Douglas F Dowd, John U Nef et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1965
Truth, Belief, and Civilization: Tocqueville and Gobineau
Open AccessJohn U Nef, John NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1963Cited by: 1References: 1
For more than a century there have been among the learned those who have tried to extend the outlook and the methods of the natural sciences to the study of man and to the behavior of human societies. Their efforts have raised issues which are of vital concern in the thermonuclear age which we have entered
A Search for Civilization
Bertram Morris, John U NefARTICLETechnology and Culture1963
Is the Intellectual Life an End in Itself
Open AccessJohn U Nef, John NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1962
AtAbout the time I received my first faculty assignment at Swarthmore College, an obituary notice of an old and admired professor made a deep impression on me. The subject was L. T. Hobhouse, the distinguished English sociologist and lifelong liberal. He had been one of the intellectual pillars upon which the Webbs and a few others had constructed the London School of Economics. I did not know Hobhouse well. But his obituary notice was written by…
A New Christian View of History
John U Nef, John NefARTICLEThought1962
Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization
Jean Lhomme, John U NefARTICLERevue économique1959Cited by: 1
Industry and Government in France and England, 1540-1640
Claude Fohlen, John U NefARTICLERevue économique1959Cited by: 7
Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization
D C Coleman, Deirdre Coleman et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1958
Science and the Creative Spirit: Essays on Humanistic Aspects of Science
B Barber, Harcourt Brown et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1958
Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization
John Brophy, John U NefARTICLEThe American Catholic Sociological…1958
Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization
W H B Court, John U NefARTICLEThe Economic History Review1958
La Naissance de la Civilisation Industrielle et le Monde Contemporain
David S Landes, John U NefARTICLEThe American Historical Review1955
The Significance of The Review of Politics
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1955References: 1
During the past fourteen years, since the entry of the United States into the Second World War, and especially since the end of the war (with its disillusioning peace blending into the so-called cold war), the United States has had thrust upon it the problems of the overwhelming difficulties of world leadership. Leadership in the true sense of the word cannot be totalitarian or authoritarian. It must be intellectual, moral and spiritual. This our…
La Naissance de la civilisation industrielle et le monde contemporain
Hugh Trevor-Roper, John U NefARTICLERevue économique1955
La naissance de la civilisation industrielle et le monde contemporain
Open AccessAna Sandoval, A S et al.ARTICLEPopulation1955Cited by: 3
Communication and Human Welfare
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History1953References: 1
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In Quest of Man
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEDiogenes1953
The University of Chicago and the World, 1929–1951
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1951
In April 1929 the trustees of the University of Chicago, in the midst of an unprecedented boom on the stock exchange, chose Robert Maynard Hutchins, the thirty-year-old dean of the Yale Law School, to be the fifth president. During the twenty-two years that followed, Hutchins made an impression upon the organization and the life of the young university of a kind such as his sponsors for the office and the newspaper public, which enjoyed the spect…

Silver Production in Central Europe, 1450-1618
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1941Cited by: 21
The Progress of Technology and the Growth of Large-Scale Industry in Great Britain, 1540-1640
John U NefARTICLEThe Economic History Review1934Cited by: 9
Industry and Government in France and England, 1540-1640
Claude Fohlen, John U NefARTICLERevue économique1959Cited by: 7
The Industrial Revolution Reconsidered
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History1943Cited by: 6References: 4
Economic history, as a subject of separate study, is now nearly a hundred years old. No other idea which has emerged from it has gained a tithe of the attention that scholars, teachers, and the general public have focused on the “industrial revolution.” Yet there is scarcely a conception in economic history more misleading than one which relates all the important problems of our modern civilization to economic changes that are represented as taki…
Civilization at the Crossroads - II
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1941Cited by: 6References: 2
The last four or five decades have been a period of increasing tension and insecurity throughout the world, especially among the Western peoples. Pessimism, cynicism, and despair have gained the ascendancy over most of Europe; uncertainty and lack of confidence over much of the United States. It would be natural for businessmen and for social scientists, who measure civilization mainly in terms of real income or the volume of industrial productio…
Prices and Industrial Capitalism in France and England, 1540‐1640. 1
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Economic History Review1937Cited by: 4References: 1
Prices and Industrial Capitalism in France and England, 1540-1640
John U NefARTICLEThe Economic History Review1937Cited by: 4
A Comparison of Industrial Growth in France and England from 1540 to 1640: Iii
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1936Cited by: 4
La naissance de la civilisation industrielle et le monde contemporain
Open AccessAna Sandoval, A S et al.ARTICLEPopulation1955Cited by: 3
Note on the Progress of Iron Production in England, 1540-1640
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1936Cited by: 3
A Comparison of Industrial Growth in France and England from 1540 to 1640
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1936Cited by: 3
Industrial Europe at the Time of the Reformation (ca. 1515--ca. 1540)
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1941Cited by: 2
Truth, Belief, and Civilization: Tocqueville and Gobineau
Open AccessJohn U Nef, John NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1963Cited by: 1References: 1
For more than a century there have been among the learned those who have tried to extend the outlook and the methods of the natural sciences to the study of man and to the behavior of human societies. Their efforts have raised issues which are of vital concern in the thermonuclear age which we have entered
Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization
Jean Lhomme, John U NefARTICLERevue économique1959Cited by: 1
What Is Economic History
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History1944Cited by: 1
Sixteen years ago, in happier times, Europe seemed about to become again what she had been to our American parents of the Victorian Age-a rich expanse of industrious and (according to the standards then prevalent) comfortable daily life, ornamented everywhere by monuments emanating from generations of culture, blessed by opportunities for quiet leisure, for travel at what was once considered a rapid pace, and for serious discussions of philosophy…
The Responsibility of Economic Historians
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History1941Cited by: 1References: 1
The immediate future of economic history is here. As I look over the program of our sessions, it seems plain that all of us are bound to be thinking about the nature of that future. Our president will speak on this subject with an authority that the rest of us cannot command. But it is up to each of us, however humble, to make such a contribution as the means at our disposal permit. Creative discussion always helps men to edge a little closer tow…
Industry and Government in France and England, 1540-1640
G N Clark, Greg Clark et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1941Cited by: 1
On the Future of American Civilization
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1940Cited by: 1
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed forever, it may be thrown back for centuries.... Persecution has always succeeded, save where the heretics were too strong a party to be effectively persecuted. No reasonable …
James Laurence Laughlin (1850-1933)
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1934Cited by: 1

The Coal Industry of the Eighteenth Century. Thomas Southcliffe Ashton , Joseph Sykes
John U NefARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1930
The History of an English Village
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1932
Richard Carmarden's "A Caveat for the Quene" (1570)
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1933
French Mercantilist Doctrines Before Colbert . Charles Woolsey Cole
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1933
James Laurence Laughlin (1850-1933)
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1934Cited by: 1
The Progress of Technology and the Growth of Large-Scale Industry in Great Britain, 1540-1640
John U NefARTICLEThe Economic History Review1934Cited by: 9
John Law: Œuvres complètes . Paul Harson
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1935
Note on the Progress of Iron Production in England, 1540-1640
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1936Cited by: 3
A Comparison of Industrial Growth in France and England from 1540 to 1640: Iii
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1936Cited by: 4
A Comparison of Industrial Growth in France and England from 1540 to 1640
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1936Cited by: 3
Prices and Industrial Capitalism in France and England, 1540‐1640. 1
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Economic History Review1937Cited by: 4References: 1
Prices and Industrial Capitalism in France and England, 1540-1640
John U NefARTICLEThe Economic History Review1937Cited by: 4
The American Universities and the Future of Western Civilization
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1939
We who are a part of the civilization that has developed in Europe since the eleventh century and in America since the sixteenth, are living in a world many times richer in material comforts than any before in history. We are living in a world where people are more confused about the nature of the moral and the intellectual virtues than they have been since the Dark Ages, possibly since the last century of the Roman Empire. Few are capable of rec…
On the Future of American Civilization
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1940Cited by: 1
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed forever, it may be thrown back for centuries.... Persecution has always succeeded, save where the heretics were too strong a party to be effectively persecuted. No reasonable …
Industrial Europe at the Time of the Reformation (ca. 1515--ca. 1540)
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1941Cited by: 2
Silver Production in Central Europe, 1450-1618
John U NefARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1941Cited by: 21
The Responsibility of Economic Historians
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History1941Cited by: 1References: 1
The immediate future of economic history is here. As I look over the program of our sessions, it seems plain that all of us are bound to be thinking about the nature of that future. Our president will speak on this subject with an authority that the rest of us cannot command. But it is up to each of us, however humble, to make such a contribution as the means at our disposal permit. Creative discussion always helps men to edge a little closer tow…
Industry and Government in France and England, 1540-1640
G N Clark, Greg Clark et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1941Cited by: 1
Civilization at the Crossroads
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1941References: 3
The Extraordinary prosperity of the Western peoples in Europe and America at the beginning of the twentieth century, on the eve of the first World War, was reached after a long series of efforts which began at about the time Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452. In contrast to the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were a period of prosperity in most districts of continental Europe. The Middle…
Civilization at the Crossroads - II
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1941Cited by: 6References: 2
The last four or five decades have been a period of increasing tension and insecurity throughout the world, especially among the Western peoples. Pessimism, cynicism, and despair have gained the ascendancy over most of Europe; uncertainty and lack of confidence over much of the United States. It would be natural for businessmen and for social scientists, who measure civilization mainly in terms of real income or the volume of industrial productio…
The United States and Civilization
William W Sweet, John U NefARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1942
Philosophical Values and American Learning
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1942References: 2
“.... Quand il se presente à nous quelque doctrine nouvelle,” wrote the greatest French skeptic, “nous avons grande occasion de nous en deffier, et de considerer qu'avant qu'elle fust produite sa contraire estoit en crédit et authorité.... Je ne change pas aisément, de peur que j'ay de perdre au change.... Je suis desgoustée d la nouvelleté quelque visage qu'elle porte.”
The United States and Civilization
David Thomson, John U NefARTICLEThe Economic History Review1942
War and Economic Progress 1540-1640
John U NefARTICLEThe Economic History Review1942References: 2
Péguy and the Spirit of France
Open AccessJohn U NefARTICLEThe Review of Politics1943
For Thought and art and even for politics in the United States, the publication of this Peguy book is one of the important events of the past three decades. It is nearly thirty years since Charles Péguy fell, leading his men, in the first battle of the Marne. Yet, so fatas I am aware, no attempt has been made before to translate into English any substantial portion of the extensive work he managed to write and to print, through his own little pub…