Martha White Paas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha White Paas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha White |
| FAMILY NAME | Paas |
| SIGNATURE | PAAS M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Martha White Paas is Professor of Economics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Her research interests include population and economic growth in early modern Germany. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Puritan Origins of the American Self
“Perhaps the most penetrating examination yet published of ‘the sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America.’”—Jack P. Greene, History “The most valuable achievement in colonial American literature since the best work of Perry Miller.”—David Levin, William and Mary Quarterly “A brave and brilliant book...that is the most significant and far-reaching contribution to the theory of American literature in recent years.”—Alan Trachten…
Family Labor Strategies in Early Modern Swabia
The article presents evidence from the period 1480–1618 in Augsburg suggesting that there were economic constraints on the decisionmaking of the peasant family: (1) Inheritance patterns and village rights offered options to the peasant. These supply side factors helped to promote an integrated labor market in Swabia. (2) Market forces influenced the supply of labor by acting on subsidiary enterprises of the peasant family. The rise of the grain p…
The Revolution of 1525, The German Peasants' War from a New Perspective
A major book that scholars will want to study closely, both for its provocative treatment of the interaction of economic and social pressures with politics and ideology and for its many revisions of Marxist and non-Marxist interpretations... Blickle's] book will influence scholarship for some time to come.--Journal of Modern History
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The Revolution of 1525, The German Peasants' War from a New Perspective
A major book that scholars will want to study closely, both for its provocative treatment of the interaction of economic and social pressures with politics and ideology and for its many revisions of Marxist and non-Marxist interpretations... Blickle's] book will influence scholarship for some time to come.--Journal of Modern History
Family Labor Strategies in Early Modern Swabia
The article presents evidence from the period 1480–1618 in Augsburg suggesting that there were economic constraints on the decisionmaking of the peasant family: (1) Inheritance patterns and village rights offered options to the peasant. These supply side factors helped to promote an integrated labor market in Swabia. (2) Market forces influenced the supply of labor by acting on subsidiary enterprises of the peasant family. The rise of the grain p…
The Puritan Origins of the American Self
“Perhaps the most penetrating examination yet published of ‘the sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America.’”—Jack P. Greene, History “The most valuable achievement in colonial American literature since the best work of Perry Miller.”—David Levin, William and Mary Quarterly “A brave and brilliant book...that is the most significant and far-reaching contribution to the theory of American literature in recent years.”—Alan Trachten…
Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Agriculture (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Cash (1 works) · Cash crop (1 works) · Economic history (1 works)