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Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.
The German Political Broadsheet, 1600-1700 by Roger Paas ’67
April 1, 2018
Tags Alumni Book
(Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017)
This volume marks the 14th and final in a collection that contains over 5,000 broadsheets (a precursor to the tabloid newspaper) produced in Europe during the 17th century. With full-page illustrations and a chronological presentation, the volumes provide readers a way of understanding the political and social context in which major historical events took place.
“Paas’ meticulous research in finding, describing and publishing all known extant 17th-century broadsheets is wonderful and sometimes underrated source material covering a tumultuous period in German and Central European history,” notes an article on the Bodleian History Faculty Library at Oxford website. “In particular, the first half of the century saw the Thirty Years’ War, one of Europe’s most violent religious wars.”
The William H. Laird Professor of German and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus at Carleton College, Paas published his first volume in 1985 based on research that emerged as part of his doctoral dissertation. While the majority of the broadsheets are housed in German libraries, museums, and archives, his goal to publish as complete a record as possible led him to more than 180 locations throughout Europe and the United States.
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