Clive Hart Day (February 11, 1871 – July 27, 1951) was an American

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and the author of ''History of Commerce''. He was chief of the

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Division of the

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in Paris in 1918–19. Day was born in

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. He graduated from

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in 1892, where he was a member of

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, and won the

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Prize. He took postgraduate studies at the

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and the

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. Day taught history and economics at the

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for three years and economics at Sheffield Scientific School (Yale) for two years. In 1907 he was appointed professor of economic history at Yale University.

Publications

* * ''History of Commerce'' (1907; revised and enlarged edition, 1922) * ''The Question of the Balkans'', a brochure (1920)

References

External links

* Clive Day papers (MS 173). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

* Yale University faculty Yale University alumni Writers from Hartford, Connecticut Economists from Connecticut 1871 births 1951 deaths University of California faculty University of Paris alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni American education writers American economics writers American male non-fiction writers American expatriates in France Historians from Connecticut {{US-economist-stub