David Rubinstein (7 August 1932 – 19 August 2019) was a social historian born of Jewish parentage in

Cleveland Heights, Ohio Cleveland Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and one of Cleveland's historical streetcar suburbs. The city's population was 45,312 at the 2020 census. As of the 2010 census, Cleveland Heights was ranked the 8th largest ...

. His father

Beryl Rubinstein Beryl Rubinstein (October 26, 1898 – December 29, 1952) was an American pianist, composer, and teacher. He was the father of social historian David Rubinstein. He married Elsa Landesman who attended Wellesley College. They were married by Abba ...

was a musician.

Biography

Rubinstein moved to England in 1952 to study for a PhD at

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where his doctoral thesis was o
The decline of the Liberal Party 1880-1900
He then moved to the

University of Hull , mottoeng = Bearing the Torch f learning, established = 1927 – University College Hull1954 – university status , type = Public , endowment = £18.8 million (2016) , budget = £190 million ...

. He lived in

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for years and latterly lived in

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, where he was an honorary fellow of the University of York. He specialized in the 19th and 20th centuries and authored approximately 20 books. Rubinstein was a member of the

Religious Society of Friends Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...

and a Quaker author. He died in 2019.

Publications

A selection of Rubinstein's work: * 1969: ''The Evolution of the Comprehensive School, 1926-1966'' (Authored with Brian Simon. London: Routledge) * 1969: ''Leisure Transport and the Countryside'' (Authored with Colin Speakman. London: Fabian Society) * 1969: ''School Attendance in London, 1870-1904: A Social History'' (New York: A.M. Kelley) * 1970: ''Education for Democracy'' (Edited with Colin Stoneman. New York: Penguin) * 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) * 1974: ''Victorian Homes'' (North Pomfret, VT: David & Charles) * 1980: ''Education and Equality'' * 1981: ''Marx and Wittgenstein: Social Praxis and Social Explanation'' * 1986: ''Before the Suffragettes: Women's Emancipation in the 1890s'' (Brighton, Sussex, UK: Harvester) * 1991: ''A Different World for Women: The Life of

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'' (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf) * 1999: ''But He'll Remember: An Autobiography.'' William Sessions Limited''Reviewed in Freeman, Mark (2004) Clio-biography, Cultural and Social History, Volume 1, Number 3, 1 September 2004 , pp. 333-340(8) * 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'' (Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press) * 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)

References

1932 births 2019 deaths Jewish American historians Alumni of the London School of Economics Academics of the University of Hull American male non-fiction writers Social historians American Quakers 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers People from Cleveland Heights, Ohio Historians from Ohio 21st-century American Jews {{US-historian-stub