William V. Harris's History Department files, 1988-1994

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

Arranged by folder title in one series.

• History Department

Description

Summary

The files relate to his six years as chair of the CU History Department (1988-1994), plus a couple that refer to wider professional activities of some significance outside the University.

• History Department

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William V. Harris's History Department Files; Box and Folder; University Arcives. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

2017.2018.M087: Source of acquisition--William V. Harris. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1/31/2018.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers processed, ptl 2/7/2018.

Revision Description

2018-02-06 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form

Subject

History / Biographical Note

Biographical Note

William Vernon Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History, specialized in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. He received his B.A., M.A. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. His books include Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity (2009), Restraining Rage: the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (2002), Ancient Literacy (1989), and War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (corrected edition, 1985). His edited books include Rethinking the Mediterranean (2005) and The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans (2008). He has written a number of articles about the economic history of the Roman Empire, and is seeing through the press a collection of them that is provisionally entitled Rome's Imperial Economy. W.V. Harris was the Director of Columbia's Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. Harris's articles include "The Mediterranean and Ancient History", published in Rethinking the Mediterranean (Oxford University Press, 2005), "Quando E Come L'Italia Divenne Per La Prima Volta Italia? Un Saggio Sulla Politica Dell'Identità", and "The Late Republic", from the Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World.