David_Rubinstein_(social_historian)

David Rubinstein (social historian)

David Rubinstein (social historian)

American social historian (1932–2019)

David Rubinstein (7 August 1932 – 19 August 2019) was a social historian born of Jewish parentage in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, US. His father Beryl Rubinstein was a musician.

Biography

Rubinstein moved to England in 1952 to study for a PhD at London School of Economics, where his doctoral thesis was on The decline of the Liberal Party 1880-1900[1] He then moved to the University of Hull. He lived in Tours for years and latterly lived in York, England, where he was an honorary fellow of the University of York.[2]

He specialized in the 19th and 20th centuries and wrote approximately 20 books.

Rubinstein was a member of the Religious Society of Friends and a Quaker author.

He died in 2019.[3]

Publications

A selection of Rubinstein's work:

  • 1969: The Evolution of the Comprehensive School, 1926-1966 (Authored with Brian Simon. London: Routledge) ISBN 0-7100-6357-1
  • 1969: Leisure Transport and the Countryside (Authored with Colin Speakman. London: Fabian Society) ISBN 0-7163-1277-8
  • 1969: School Attendance in London, 1870-1904: A Social History (New York: A.M. Kelley) ISBN 0-678-08000-3
  • 1970: Education for Democracy (Edited with Colin Stoneman. New York: Penguin) ISBN 0-14-080199-5
  • 1972: Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia (Authored with Yrjo O. Alanen)
  • 1972: The Wold's Way
  • 1973: People for the People: Radical Ideas & Personalities in British Social History (London: Ithaca Press) ISBN 0-903729-02-4
  • 1974: Victorian Homes (North Pomfret, VT: David & Charles) ISBN 0-7153-6765-X
  • 1980: Education and Equality
  • 1981: Marx and Wittgenstein: Social Praxis and Social Explanation
  • 1986: Before the Suffragettes: Women's Emancipation in the 1890s[4] (Brighton, Sussex, UK: Harvester) ISBN 0-7108-1051-2
  • 1991: A Different World for Women: The Life of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf) ISBN 0-7108-1104-7
  • 1999: But He'll Remember: An Autobiography. William Sessions Limited[5]
  • 1999: York Friends and the Great War (York, UK: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research)
  • 2000: Culture, Structure and Agency: Toward a Truly Multidimensional Sociology
  • 2005: The Labour Party and British Society, 1880–2005[2] (Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press) ISBN 1-84519-055-6
  • 2006: An Inquiry into the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Sciences (Authored with Alfred Claassen. San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy)
  • 2009: The Backhouse Quaker Family of York Nurserymen: Including James Backhouse, 1794-1869, Botanist and Quaker Missionary
  • 2009: The Nature of the World: The Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 1822-2000 (York, UK: Quacks) ISBN 1-904446-18-3

References

  1. [1]
    Rubinstein, B. David (1956). The decline of the Liberal Party 1880 - 1900 (PhD). London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  2. [2]
    "The Labour Party and British Society, 1880–2005 - David Rubinstein". sussex-academic.com. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
  3. [3]
    "David Rubinstein obituary". The Guardian. 2019-08-19. Archived from the original on 2022-12-07.
  4. [4]
    Robson, Ann. "Review of Before the Suffragettes: Women's Emancipation in the 1890s by David Rubinstein." Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 19.2 (Summer 1987): 280-282.
  5. [5]
    Reviewed in Freeman, Mark (2004) Clio-biography, Cultural and Social History, Volume 1, Number 3, 1 September 2004 , pp. 333-340(8)


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