John Day (historian)

John Moulton Day (3 April 1924 – 17 February 2003) was an American historian.

Biography
Born in Evanston (Illinois) in 1924, John Day taught at the Paris VII - Denis-Diderot University of Paris, in Israel, in the United States and at the University of Cagliari. During his work as an historian, he has dealt in many of his studies with topics concerning economic history and has used statistical methodologies, among others. Some of the themes he studied the most were monetary colonialism in the Mediterranean, the role of colonialism in the poverty of colonized peoples and the history of Sardinia under foreign colonizers. His studies, in contrast to the previous idea of a "civilization" coming from outside, led him to consider Sardinia as one of the oldest colonies in the world, and to consider what was called its "immobility" as a consequence of such colonization.

Furthermore, he was the author of one of the first censuses of the abandoned villages and villages of Sardinia. His research has made it possible to bring the European methodologies of the period, and especially the French ones, into Sardinian historiography.

Publications
This is a partial list of John Day's publications:


 * John Day, Europa dal '400 al '600: fonti e problemi, Atti del convegno internazionale (in Italian), Milan, 1983, pp. 241–249.
 * John Day, Europa dal '400 al '600: fonti e problemi, Atti del convegno internazionale (in Italian), Milan, 1983, pp. 241–249.
 * John Day, Europa dal '400 al '600: fonti e problemi, Atti del convegno internazionale (in Italian), Milan, 1983, pp. 241–249.
 * John Day, Europa dal '400 al '600: fonti e problemi, Atti del convegno internazionale (in Italian), Milan, 1983, pp. 241–249.
 * John Day, Europa dal '400 al '600: fonti e problemi, Atti del convegno internazionale (in Italian), Milan, 1983, pp. 241–249.