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Title

Associate Professor of History

Degree

Ph.D., Harvard University

Field of Specialty

Early modern European history. Germany.

Contact Information

Olin-Sang American Civilization Center 117
781-736-2277
sreenivasan@brandeis.edu

Govind Sreenivasan

Works on the social history of early modern Europe (c. 1450 to c. 1750). He is most interested in rural Germany, and in particular, the transformation of family and property relations in the context of economic crisis and religious war.

Publications

Sreenivasan, Govind. "Beyond the Village: Recent Approaches to the Social History of the Early Modern German Peasantry." History Compass 11. 1 (2013): 47-6

Sreenivasan, Govind. "Chapter 1: Food Production." A Cultural History of Food. Volume 4: The Early Modern Age. vol. 4 Ed. Beat Kümin. Oxford: Berg, 2012

Sreenivasan, Govind. "Review." Rev. of Revolte und Sozialstatus. Von der Spätantike bis zur Frühen Neuzeit. Révolte et statut social de l'Antiquité tardive aux Temps modernes, by Philippe Depreux, ed.. sehepunkte vol. 9, 10 October 2009

Sreenivasan, Govind. "Review." Rev. of Ecology, economy and state formation in early modern Germany, by Paul Warde. Social History vol. 32, 4 (Nov 2007): 473-5.

Sreenivasan, Govind. "Review." Rev. of Communal Christianity: The Life and Loss of a Peasant Vision in early modern Germany. (Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., 2004), by David Mayes. Central European History vol. 39, 3 (September 2006): pp. 496-8.

Sreenivasan,Govind. "Review of Oliver Kaul, Undankbare Gäste: Abendmahlsverzich und Abendmahls-ausschluss in der Reichsstadt Ulm um 1600." German History (2005).

Sreenivasan, Govind. The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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