Background
Nef, John Ulric was born on July 13, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of John Ulric and Louise Bates (Comstock) Nef.
(Four hundred years ago the pattern of human life and thou...)
Four hundred years ago the pattern of human life and thought was strikingly different from our own. What main features led to the change in that pattern? Professor Nef, a distinguished historian, suggests that economic history cannot alone give the answer: it must be in terms of changing attitudes and interests as much as in terms of a developing economy and a growing technology. The origins of industrialism have to be sought in history as a whole. Man's concern for truth, goodness and beauty has done as much to produce the modern world as economic institutions and natural resources. Professor Nef has it in mind that, for a historian, the importance of human nature cannot be made subservient to that of productivity statistics; in this book he portrays the birth and development of our industrial civilisation in a clearer light. The book is developed from the second series of Wiles lectures given at Queen's University, Belfast and is a successor to Man on his Past by Herbert Butterfield.
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"Mr. Nef has made a rare combination of what the profession calls 'economic history' and 'intellectual history,' a combination which results, quite obviously, in an enrichment for history pure and simple." ―Crane Brinton "This is in many respects perhaps the most important book that has been published recently. Its intellectual integrity, its humane pathos, its analytical force are exceptional. The title gives only an inadequate indication of the contents; it is at the same time an economic, technological, and cultural history of the rise of industrial civilization. This history is focused on the interconnection between war and industrial and technological progress―a single-mindedness of purpose which breaks through the well-established framework of traditional historiography and opens new insights into the period." ―Herbert Marcuse, The American Historical Review
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Nef, John Ulric was born on July 13, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of John Ulric and Louise Bates (Comstock) Nef.
Bachelor of Science, Harvard University, 1920. Doctor of Philosophy, Robert Brookings Graduate School, Washington, 1927. Dr Honoris Causa, University Paris, 1955.
Dr Honoris Causa, University Strasbourg, 1968.
Assistant professor economics, Swartmore College, 1927-1928;
assistant professor econs, University of Chicago, 1929-1931;
associate professor, University of Chicago, 1931-1935;
associate professor economics history, University of Chicago, 1935-1936;
professor, University of Chicago, 1936-1950;
founder interdisciplanary graduate department Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, 1941;
chairman, University of Chicago, 1945-1964;
chairman Center Human Understanding, University of Chicago, 1961-1968;
member visiting committee social science, University of Chicago, from 1977. Visiting professor Institute d'Etudes Politiques, U. Paris, 1949, College de France, 1953. Wiles Foundation lecturer U. Belfast, 1956.
Smith lecturer history U.St. Thomas, Houston, 1961.
(This work has been selected by scholars as being cultural...)
(Four hundred years ago the pattern of human life and thou...)
(1966 Archon Books reprinting of the 1932 Routledge / Robe...)
(A classic book.)
( "Mr. Nef has made a rare combination of what the profes...)
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President John and Evelyn Nef Foundation, from 1965. With United States Army, 1918. Fellow Royal Society Arts, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member Economics History Association (Vice-President 1942-1944), World Academy Art and Science, Royal History Society, Literature Society Washington, Quadrangle Club (Chicago), Cosmos Club (Washington).
Married Elinor Henry Castle, November 19, 1921 (deceased February 1953). Married Evelyn Stefansson, April 21, 1964.