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

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