Harold Perkin
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- PhD History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harold James Perkin was a distinguished English social historian who was the founder of the Social History Society in 1976. Background Perkin was born in Hanley, Staffordshire of humble origins. He attended Hanley High School and won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge from 1945, gaining a starred First Class degree in 1948. After National Service in the RAF, he was rejected by his Cambridge college to study for a PhD. He began extramural history teaching from 1950 with the University of Manchester.
Harold Perkin's Published Works
Published Works
- The rise of professional society: England since 1880 (1990) (566)
- The origins of modern English society (1969) (310)
- The rise of professional society (1989) (242)
- The Third Revolution : professional elites in the modern world (1996) (188)
- The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880. (1969) (184)
- History of Universities (2007) (145)
- The Third Revolution (1996) (123)
- From Pauperism to Poverty. (1982) (117)
- Teaching the nations how to play: sport and society in the British empire and commonwealth (1989) (56)
- Individualism Versus Collectivism in Nineteenth-Century Britain: A False Antithesis (1977) (48)
- Trinity College Dublin 1592-1952: An academic history (1982) (37)
- Education in Evolution: Church, State, Society and Popular Education, 1800-1870. (1971) (29)
- The age of the railway (1970) (29)
- The 'Social Tone' of Victorian Seaside Resorts in the North-West (1976) (21)
- The Recruitment of Elites in British Society Since 1800 (1978) (20)
- Christian Socialism and Co-Operation in Victorian England: Edward Vansittart Neale and the Co-Operative Movement. (1974) (19)
- The Lower Middle Class in Britain, 1870-1914.@@@Middle Class Housing in Britain. (1978) (18)
- New Universities in the United Kingdom (1970) (18)
- Origins of Law and Economics: The Economists' New Science of Law, 1830-1930 (1998) (18)
- Middle Class Housing in Britain. (1977) (17)
- The structured crowd: Essays in English social history (1981) (14)
- Determination of iodine in blood. (1933) (13)
- Blood Iodine Studies in Relation to Thyroid Disease (1936) (13)
- Social History in Britain (1976) (11)
- The level of iodine in the blood. (1940) (11)
- New Universities in the United Kingdom. Case Studies on Innovation in Higher Education. (1969) (10)
- Ideas and Institutions of Victorian Britain: Essays in Honour of George Kitson Clark. (1969) (10)
- “The Condescension of Posterity:” The Recent Historiography of the English Working Class (1978) (9)
- The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England: The United Kingdom Alliance, 1872-1895. (1981) (9)
- The Social Causes of the British Industrial Revolution (1968) (9)
- The Professions in Early Modern England, 1450-1800: Servants of the Commonweal (review) (2002) (8)
- EXOPHTHALMIC GOITER: RELATION BETWEEN THE BLOOD IODINE LEVEL AND THE DURATION OF SYMPTOMS IN THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE CASES (1938) (8)
- University planning in Britain in the 1960's (1972) (7)
- Dream, Myth and Reality: New Universities in England, 1960–1990 (1991) (7)
- THE FRACTIONATION OF THE IODINE OF THE BLOOD IN THYROID DISEASE. (1939) (7)
- Ideology and the Labour Movement: Essays Presented to John Saville (1979) (6)
- Blood iodine levels related to the recurrence of hyperthyroidism. (1939) (6)
- The Structured Crowd (1981) (5)
- The Third Revolution and Stakeholder Capitalism: Convergence or Collapse? (1996) (5)
- The level of ascorbic acid in the blood and urine of patients with peptic ulcer (1938) (5)
- An Open Elite (1985) (5)
- Middle-Class Education and Employment in the Nineteenth Century: A Critical Note (1961) (5)
- The iodine tolerance test as an aid in the diagnosis of clinical hyperthyroidism. (1937) (4)
- THE BLOOD IODINE CONTENT OF NORMAL AND THYROTOXIC INDIVIDUALS. AN IODINE TOLERANCE TEST. (1934) (4)
- UNIVERSITY PLANNING IN BRITAIN IN THE 1960s (1947) (4)
- The Making of a Social Historian (2002) (3)
- The Blood Iodine Level, before and after Subtotal Thyroidectomy for Hyperthyroidism (1936) (3)
- 1. THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (1984) (3)
- Defining the True Function of the University: A Question of Freedom versus Control. (1984) (3)
- American Fundamentalism and the Selling of God (2000) (3)
- Redesigning the University for the 1980s and Beyond: An International Perspective. (1985) (3)
- What is social history (1953) (2)
- THE INFLUENCE OF THE THYROID GLAND AND OF THE OVARY ON THE METABOLISM OF IODINE AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN THE DOG (1938) (2)
- Mass Higher Education and the Elitist Tradition: The English Experience. (1976) (2)
- The practicability and significance of blood iodine estimations. (1936) (2)
- The Transformation of Intellectual Life in Victorian England. T. W. HeyckFabianism and Culture: A Study in British Socialism and the Arts c. 1884-1918. Ian Britain (1984) (1)
- Essex People, 1750-1900, from Their Diaries, Memoirs and Letters. (1973) (1)
- CLASS SOCIETY AND THE PROFESSIONAL IDEAL (2002) (1)
- THE MEANING OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY (2002) (1)
- Introduction: An Age of Great Cities (2013) (1)
- Revenge of the anoraks (2003) (1)
- The Birth of Class (2002) (1)
- THE PLATEAU OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY (2002) (1)
- Modern English Society: History and Structure, 1850-1970. (1971) (1)
- Britain and Japan: Two Roads to Higher Education. (1981) (1)
- Insights of a Master Historian (2000) (1)
- The Financial Crisis in British Universities: Or How to Live with 29 Percent Inflation. (1975) (1)
- A SEGREGATED SOCIETY (2002) (1)
- The Structure of Higher Education-A World View. Introduction. (1973) (1)
- The Handloom Weavers; A Study in the English Cotton Industry during the Industrial Revolution. By Duncan Bythell. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. xiv + 302. $12.50) (1971) (1)
- Higher Education and Social Progress: A Comparative Perspective. (1998) (1)
- New Universities in Britain (1961) (1)
- History: An introduction for the intending student; (1970) (1)
- THE LUNG VOLUME AFTER THORACOPLASTY (1938) (1)
- The Old Society (2002) (0)
- THE TRIUMPH OF THE PROFESSIONAL IDEAL (2002) (0)
- A photometric method of estimating calcium in blood serum and in urine; a preliminary report. (1954) (0)
- The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class. Janet Wolff , John SeedEnglishness: Politics and Culture, 1880-1920. Robert Colls , Philip Dodd (1990) (0)
- The flame photometer. (1952) (0)
- Claeys Gregory. Machinery, Money and the Millenium: From Moral Economy to Socialism, 1815–1860. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1987. Pp. xxx, 245. $35.00. (1988) (0)
- Birmingham, 1939–1970 (History of Birmingham, vol. iii). By Anthony Sutcliffe and Roger Smith (London: Oxford U.P. for Birmingham City Council, 1974. £12). (1975) (0)
- Sponsors of the dream (2002) (0)
- A HALFWAY HOUSE: SOCIETY IN WAR AND PEACE (2002) (0)
- Infants in barbarism (1994) (0)
- Book Reviews (2005) (0)
- Reviews : Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-44015-7, 1993; x + 826 pp.; £40.00 hardback, £16.95 paper back (1995) (0)
- Soul food for the boardroom (1999) (0)
- Book Review:The Western European Idea in Education Vernon Mallinson (1981) (0)
- Book Review:The School in Question: A Comparative Study of the School and Its Future in Western Society Torsten Husen (1980) (0)
- G.R. Rubin and David Sugarman, editors. Law, Economy and Society, 1750-1914: Essays in the History of English Law . Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Professional Books. 1984. Pp. 503. £24.50, £14.50 paper. (1986) (0)
- THE FRACTIONATION OF THE IODINE OF THE BLOODIN THYROID DISEASE (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: F. M. L. Thompson.GENTRIFICATION AND THE ENTERPRISE CULTURE: BRITAIN 1780-1980. and Simon Gunn.The PUBLIC CULTURE OF THE VICTORIAN MIDDLE CLASS: RITUAL AND AUTHORITY IN THE ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL CITY 1840-1914. (2002) (0)
- Review: Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830–1864 (1997) (0)
- THE CRISIS OF CLASS SOCIETY (2002) (0)
- One World Emerging?: Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies (review) (1999) (0)
- The Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Ideal (2002) (0)
- The Social Causes of Industrialism (2002) (0)
- The Revolution in Social Organization (2002) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- Steven Marcus. Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class. New York: Random House. 1974. Pp. xiii, 271. $8.95 (1975) (0)
- THE ZENITH OF CLASS SOCIETY (2002) (0)
- The Struggle between the Ideals (2002) (0)
- The Social Consequences of Industrialism (2002) (0)
- American Higher Education: A History (1996) (0)
- The Inductive Imagination: Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. By Charles Tilly (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1984. xii + 176 pp. $14.50) (1986) (0)
- FRANCE : A planned meritocracy (2002) (0)
- Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England. John CannonThe English Aristocracy: A Comparative Synthesis. M. L. BushAristocracy. Jonathan Powis (1986) (0)
- TOWARDS A CORPORATE SOCIETY (2002) (0)
- JOEL H. WIENER. The War of the Unstamped : The Movement to Repeal the British Newspaper Tax, 1830-1836. Pp. xviii, 310. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1969. $10.00 (1971) (0)
- Regional Wage Variations in Britain, 1890–1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. £8.25) (1975) (0)
- Harmut Kaelble, Historical Research on Social Mobility. Western Europe and the U.S.A. in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (translated by Ingrid Noakes). London: Croom Helm, 1981. 160 pp. Tables. Bibliography. £8.50 (1982) (0)
- White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845–1929. By George Robb (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 250 pp.) (1994) (0)
- R. F. Foster. Paddy and Mr. Punch: Connections in Irish and English History . New York: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press. 1993. Pp. xvii, 382. $27.50. ISBN 0-713-99095-3. (1994) (0)
- Making America Corporate, 1870-1920.Olivier Zunz (1992) (0)
- Gail Savage. The Social Construction of Expertise: The English Civil Service and its Influence, 1919-1939. (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1996. Pp. ix, 238. $22.95. ISBN 0-8229-5596-2. (2000) (0)
- Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980, and: The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840-1914 (review) (2003) (0)
- : The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class ; Englishness: Politics and Culture, 1880-1920 (1990) (0)
- John Garrard. Democratisation in Britain: Elites, Civil Society and Reform since 1800. (British Studies Series.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xv, 317. $69.95. ISBN 0-333-6639-8. (2003) (0)
- The Rise of a Viable Class Society (2002) (0)
- THE UNITED STATES : A free market for corporations (2002) (0)
- Apologia for the adman (1998) (0)
- Adaptation to change by British universities (1974) (0)
- Reba N. Soffer. Discipline and Power: The University, History, and the Making of an English Elite, 1870–1930 . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 1994. Pp. xi, 308. $45.00. ISBN 0-8047-2383-4. (1995) (0)
- Paradise Regained? A Policy for Higher Education in the 1980s (Higher Education for the1980s : Challenges and Responses : Report of the Second Hiroshima International Seminar on Higher Education : 3. POLICY MAKING, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT) (1980) (0)
- Never-never land (1999) (0)
- Explanation in Social History. By Christopher Lloyd (Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. xv + 375 pp. $45.00) (1987) (0)
- The tyranny of the moral majority: American religion and politics since the pilgrim fathers (1999) (0)
- Price Richard. Labour in British Society: An Interpretive History. Wolfeboro, N.H.: Croom Helm, Ltd. 1986. Pp. 261. $43.00. (1987) (0)
- New Movements in the Study and Teaching of History@@@History: An Introduction for the Intending Student (1972) (0)
- Power and the Professions in Britain, 1700–1850. By Penelope J. Corfield. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. x, 269. £45.00, $79.95 (1997) (0)
- Marquand David. The Progressive Dilemma: From Lloyd George to Kinnock. London: Heinemann. 1991. Pp. 248. £20. (1992) (0)
- County Borough. The History of Burton-upon-Trent 1901–74 (1976) (0)
- Entrepreneurial Society: Ideal and Reality (2002) (0)
- Kristine Bruland and Patrick O’Brien eds. From Family Firm to Corporate Capitalism: Essays in Business and Industrial History in Honour of Peter Mathias. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. Pp. xxv, 362. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-829046-2. (1998) (0)
- THE BACKLASH AGAINST PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY (2002) (0)
- Europe (1998) (0)
- The More Than Industrial Revolution (2002) (0)
- The second Hiroshima International Seminar on Higher Education : second session : policy making, planning, and development : reports and discussions (1980) (0)
- Barons of the Welsh Frontier: the Corbet, Pantulf and Fitz Warin Families, 1066–1272 (1983) (0)
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