David Harris Sacks
Biographic Data
| ID | 602847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Harris Sacks |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Harris |
| FAMILY NAME | Sacks |
| SIGNATURE | SACKS D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reed College |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-6621-4912 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Building the Church of England: The Book of Common Prayer and the Edwardian Reformation
Generations: Age, Anxiety, and Memory in the English Reformations
On Mending the Peace of the World: Sir Francis Bacon’s Apocalyptic Irenicism
This essay is about irenicism and science, i.e. about the interrelationship between the quest for peace on earth and the quest for knowledge about the world. Both are global aspirations, the former focused on achieving concord among rival peoples and ideologies, nations, and religions; the latter on comprehending the earth and the heavens and the way the things in them are made. Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), Viscount St. Alban and sometime Lord …
Utopia as a gift: More and Erasmus on the horns of a dilemma
The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde and the Study of Old English, by Rebecca Brackmann
Rebecca Brackmann’s deeply researched, thoughtful and informative book asks readers to consider the ‘invention’ of ‘Anglo-Saxon England’ as a term meant to identify a specific place, namely the territory bordered by Scotland in the north and Wales in the west, during a specific historical time, namely the period from the Germanic migrations into the southern parts of Britain in the mid-fifth century to the Norman Conquest. Brackmann opens with th…
Commonwealth Discourse and Economic Thought
Intellectual Developments - 1
Social Hierarchies
Commonwealth Discourse and Economic Thought - 1 - The morality of exchange
The true temper of empire: Dominion, friendship and exchange in the English Atlantic, c. 1575–1625
Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1500–1700
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1500–1700. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2006. xvi + 328 pp. index. illus. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 0-8047-4280-4. - Volume 60 Issue 4
Freedom to, Freedom from, Freedom of: Urban Life and Political Participation in Early Modern England
This paper focuses on the English experience of urban and national citizenship in the early modern period, arguing for the centrality of the economic rights and privileges of citizenship to the development of political participation in the early modern period. In doing so it also emphasizes that a degree of freedom from the state was critical to early modern citizenship. It ends by considering citizenship within the context of the English colonia…
The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation
Norman L. Jones. The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation. New York and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. xvi + 254 pp. + 7 b/w pls. index. illus. map. bibl. 29.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-631-21042-3 (cl), 0-631-21043-1 (pbk). - Volume 56 Issue 3
From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1994-1995
Paul Slack, From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1994-1995 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. viii + 179 pp. $45. IBSN: 0-19-820661-5. - Volume 53 Issue 4
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain: History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500–1800
This collection of essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explores the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British imaginative and historical writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment. The historians discuss the questions of truth, fiction, and the contours of early modern historical culture, while the literary scholars consider some of the fi…
A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World
More than four thousand years ago, a warrior people invaded the rugged hills and fertile plains of the Balkan Peninsula. These people were the ancient Greeks, and their legacy to modern global society is immense. The Greeks invented democracy, narrative history writing, stage tragedy and comedy, philosophy, biological study, and political theory. They introduced the alphabet to European languages and they developed monumental styles of architectu…
Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England . Richard Helgerson Francis Bacon, the State, and the Reform of Natural Philosophy . Julian Martin Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan: Th…
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637-1642
The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London
Habits of Thoughts in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture
Debora Kuller Shuger, Habits of Thoughts in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture. (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 13.) Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1990. ix + 284 pp. $35. - Volume 46 Issue 2
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires
Journal Article The Political Economy of Merchant Empires. Ed. by James D. Tracy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii + 504 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-521-41046-0.) Get access David Harris Sacks David Harris Sacks Reed College, Portland, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079723 Published: 01 June…
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
Creating a World Economy: Merchant Capital, Colonialism, and World Trade, 1400-1825
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
Journal Article The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450–1700. By David Harris Sacks. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xxviii + 464 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-520-07148-4.) Get access Paul G. E. Clemens Paul G. E. Clemens Rutgers, State University of New Jersey New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Page 1128, h…
The Corporate Town and the English State: Bristol's "Little Businesses" 1625-1641
Journal Article THE CORPORATE TOWN AND THE ENGLISH STATE: BRISTOL'S “LITTLE BUSINESSES” 1625‐1641 Get access David Harris Sacks David Harris Sacks Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 110, Issue 1, February 1986, Pages 69–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/110.1.69 Published: 01 February 1986
The true temper of empire: Dominion, friendship and exchange in the English Atlantic, c. 1575–1625
Freedom to, Freedom from, Freedom of: Urban Life and Political Participation in Early Modern England
This paper focuses on the English experience of urban and national citizenship in the early modern period, arguing for the centrality of the economic rights and privileges of citizenship to the development of political participation in the early modern period. In doing so it also emphasizes that a degree of freedom from the state was critical to early modern citizenship. It ends by considering citizenship within the context of the English colonia…
The demise of the Martyrs: The feasts of St clement and St katherine in Bristol, 1400–1600∗
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
Journal Article The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450–1700. By David Harris Sacks. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xxviii + 464 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-520-07148-4.) Get access Paul G. E. Clemens Paul G. E. Clemens Rutgers, State University of New Jersey New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Page 1128, h…
Seventeenth-Century Norwich: Politics, Religion, and Government, 1620-90 . John T. Evans Tudor York . D. M. Palliser Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages . Charl…
The Hedgehog and the Fox Revisited
The demise of the Martyrs: The feasts of St clement and St katherine in Bristol, 1400–1600∗
European Urbanization, 1500-1800 . Jan de Vries
The Corporate Town and the English State: Bristol's "Little Businesses" 1625-1641
Journal Article THE CORPORATE TOWN AND THE ENGLISH STATE: BRISTOL'S “LITTLE BUSINESSES” 1625‐1641 Get access David Harris Sacks David Harris Sacks Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 110, Issue 1, February 1986, Pages 69–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/110.1.69 Published: 01 February 1986
Searching for "Culture" in the English Renaissance
Journal Article Searching for “Culture” in the English Renaissance Get access David Harris Sacks David Harris Sacks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 4, Winter 1988, Pages 465–488, https://doi.org/10.2307/2870708 Published: 01 December 1988
The British Conquest and Dominion of India
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
Journal Article The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450–1700. By David Harris Sacks. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xxviii + 464 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-520-07148-4.) Get access Paul G. E. Clemens Paul G. E. Clemens Rutgers, State University of New Jersey New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Page 1128, h…
Habits of Thoughts in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture
Debora Kuller Shuger, Habits of Thoughts in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture. (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 13.) Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1990. ix + 284 pp. $35. - Volume 46 Issue 2
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires
Journal Article The Political Economy of Merchant Empires. Ed. by James D. Tracy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii + 504 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-521-41046-0.) Get access David Harris Sacks David Harris Sacks Reed College, Portland, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 238–239, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079723 Published: 01 June…
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
Creating a World Economy: Merchant Capital, Colonialism, and World Trade, 1400-1825
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700
The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637-1642
The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London
Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England . Richard Helgerson Francis Bacon, the State, and the Reform of Natural Philosophy . Julian Martin Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan: Th…
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain: History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500–1800
This collection of essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explores the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British imaginative and historical writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment. The historians discuss the questions of truth, fiction, and the contours of early modern historical culture, while the literary scholars consider some of the fi…
A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World
More than four thousand years ago, a warrior people invaded the rugged hills and fertile plains of the Balkan Peninsula. These people were the ancient Greeks, and their legacy to modern global society is immense. The Greeks invented democracy, narrative history writing, stage tragedy and comedy, philosophy, biological study, and political theory. They introduced the alphabet to European languages and they developed monumental styles of architectu…
From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1994-1995
Paul Slack, From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1994-1995 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. viii + 179 pp. $45. IBSN: 0-19-820661-5. - Volume 53 Issue 4
The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation
Norman L. Jones. The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation. New York and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. xvi + 254 pp. + 7 b/w pls. index. illus. map. bibl. 29.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-631-21042-3 (cl), 0-631-21043-1 (pbk). - Volume 56 Issue 3
Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1500–1700
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1500–1700. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2006. xvi + 328 pp. index. illus. bibl. $24.95. ISBN: 0-8047-4280-4. - Volume 60 Issue 4
Freedom to, Freedom from, Freedom of: Urban Life and Political Participation in Early Modern England
This paper focuses on the English experience of urban and national citizenship in the early modern period, arguing for the centrality of the economic rights and privileges of citizenship to the development of political participation in the early modern period. In doing so it also emphasizes that a degree of freedom from the state was critical to early modern citizenship. It ends by considering citizenship within the context of the English colonia…
The true temper of empire: Dominion, friendship and exchange in the English Atlantic, c. 1575–1625
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