William Cornelius Lubenow (born in
Chicago, Illinois
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in 1939) holds the
chair
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of
History
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at
Stockton University
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, New Jersey. He serves as
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of the
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n
Conference
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on
British Studies, and
Chairman
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of the
American Associates Committee of Parliament History. Lubenow is also a member of the
Reform Club
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. His many academic distinctions include:
Visiting Fellow
In academia
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of
Wolfson College, Cambridge
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and
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
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.
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Bibliography
(selected)
Books
* ''Politics of Government Growth: Early Victorian Attitudes Towards State Intervention'' (David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1971).
* ''Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis: British House of Commons in 1886'' (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988).
* ''The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life'' (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998)
* ''Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914: Making Words Flesh'' (Boydell Press, Suffolk, 2010).
* ''Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain'' (Boydell Press, Suffolk, 2015).
* ''Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950: Institutions, Ideas and Intellectual Experience'' (Boydell Press, Suffolk, 2020).
Articles
* ''The Organization of Knowledge in Victorian Britain'' (London and Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2005): 357-370
* ''Religion in the University: Authority, Faith, and Learning'' eview essay Minerva, 42, 3 (September 2004): 269-283
* ''Authority, Honour, and the Strachey Family'' (1817-1974), Historical Research, 76, no. 194 (November 2003): 512-534
References
External links
''Who's Who in America''
www.stockton.edu
www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk
1939 births
Living people
Writers from Chicago
University of Iowa alumni
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Stockton University faculty
Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Historians from Illinois
American male non-fiction writers
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