Theodore K. Rabb

Theodore K. Rabb is a historian of the early modern period and is Professor of History at Princeton University.

Along with Robert I. Rotberg, he is also the co-founder and editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History and was also an advisor for the 1993 television series "Renaissance".

Bibliography

Books

* "The Thirty Years' War: Problems of Motive, Extent, and Effect" (Boston, 1964)
* "Enterprise and Empire: Merchant and Gentry Investment in the Expansion of England, 1575-1630" (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967)
* "The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975)
* "Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age" (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993)
* "Jacobean Gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)
* "Emergence of International Business 1200-1800, Volume III: Enterprise and Empire" (New York: Taylor & Francis, 1999)
* "The Last Days of the Renaissance & the March to Modernity" (New York: Basic Books, 2006)

As editor

With Robert I. Rotberg

* "The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays" (New York: Harper & Row, 1973)
* "Marriage and Fertility: Studies in Interdisciplinary History" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)
* "Climate and History: Studies in Interdisciplinary History" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981)
* "Industrialization and Urbanization: Studies in Interdisciplinary History" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981)
* "The New History, the 1980s and Beyond: Studies in Interdisciplinary History" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982)
* "Hunger and History: The Impact of Changing Food Production and Consumption Patterns on Society" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
* "Population and Economy: Population and History from the Traditional to the Modern World" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
* "Art and History: Images and Their Meaning" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
* "The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)

with Ezra Suleiman

* "The Making and Unmaking of Democracy: Lessons from History and World Politics" (New York: Routledge, 2002)

Journal Articles

In the "Journal of Interdisciplinary History"

* 'The Historian and the Climatologist', 10 (1980): 831-837
* 'Coherence, Synthesis, and Quality in History', 12 (1981): 315-332
* 'The Development of Quantification in Historical Research', 13 (1983): 591-601
* 'The Interdisciplinary Nature of American History', 16 (1985): 103-106
* 'The Evidence of Art: Images and Meaning in History', 17 (1986): 1-6
* 'History and Religion: Interpretation and Illumination', 23 (1993): 445-451
* 'The Historian and Art: A New Maturity', 33 (2002): 87-93
* 'How Italian Was the Renaissance?', 33 (2003): 569-575
* 'Opera, Musicology, and History', 36 (2006): 321-330

Review Articles

* 'The Historian and the Art Historian', 4 (1973): 107-117
* 'The Historian and the Art Historian Revisited', 14 (1984): 647-655
* 'The Historian and the Art Historian, III: Recent Work on the Seventeenth Century', 20 (1990): 437-444
* 'Historians and Art Historians: A Lowering of Sights?', 27 (1996): 87-94

In "Past & Present"

* 'Religion and the Rise of Modern Science', 31 (1965): 111-126
* 'Science, Religion and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries', 33 (1966): 148
* 'Free Trade and the Gentry in the Parliament of 1604', 40 (1968): 165-173
* 'The Advent of Printing and the Problem of the Renaissance: A Comment', 52 (1971): 135-140
* 'The Role of the Commons', 92 (1981): 55-78

Other Journals

* 'The Effects of the Thirty Years' War on the German Economy', "The Journal of Modern History, 34 (1962): 40-51
* 'The Editions of Sir Edwin Sandys's "Relation of the State of Religion"', "The Huntington Library Quarterly", 26 (1963): 323-336
* 'Sir Edwin Sandys and the Parliament of 1604', "The American Historical Review", 69 (1964): 646-670
* 'Investment in English Overseas Enterprise, 1575-1630', "The Economic History Review", 19 (1966): 70-81
* 'On Nominalism and Idealism, Historical and Statistical: A Response to Roger Schofield', "The Historical Journal", 15 (1972): 788-793
* 'The Expansion of Europe and the Spirit of Capitalism', "The Historical Journal", 17 (1974): 675-689
* 'Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance', "English Historical Review, 118 (2003): 1384-1385
* 'Observations - Why Michelangelo Matters: His spiritual World has Vanished, But the Master's Quest for Perfection is Rightly Irresistible', "Commentary", 122 (2006): 56
* 'Those Who Do Not Learn History...', "Chronicle of Higher Education", 53 (2007)

Review articles

* 'Parliament and Society in Early Stuart England: The Legacy of Wallace Notestein', "The American Historical Review", 77 (1972): 705-714
* 'Early Modern Europe from Above and Below', "The Journal of Modern History", 45 (1973): 456-462