Ferdinand Schevill (1868–1954)
Auteur de The Medici
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Ferdinand Schevill
The Great Elector 10 exemplaires
Karl Bitter: A Biography 1 exemplaire
Dear Sam: (Chicago, Oct 14, 1932) 1 exemplaire
Medieval and Renaissance Florence Volume I 1 exemplaire
Karl Bitter; A Biography. 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1868
- Date de décès
- 1954
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Études
- Yale College (AB|1889)
University of Freiburg (PhD ∙ 1892) - Professions
- professor
historian - Organisations
- University of Chicago
- Courte biographie
- Professor of History at the University of Chicago from 1892 to 1937. Historian Focus on Italian Renaissance
Membres
Critiques
The Medici, The par Ferdinand Schevill
A great read - lots of drama, detail and discussion.
Published in 1922, just after WWI, the comments by the author, trying to anticipate what may be going to happen makes this particularly interesting.Then as one Amazon reviewer wrote "I am amazed that anyone would even try to understand European history from 600AD to 1914...without having a clear grasp of Byzantine and Ottoman history" This is why I read it, really. One particularly good map on page 433 shows the location of the different nationalities. My suspiciion is that the book was brought back into print in 1991, essentially unchanged,because of the Balkan wars of the 1900s.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Membres
- 467
- Popularité
- #52,672
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 14
- Langues
- 1