David Rubinstein is a social historian living in York

York

York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

, England

England

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, specializing in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has authored approximately 20 books.

He was born in the United States of America and moved to England in 1952 to study for a PhD

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 at London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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. He then moved to the University of Hull

University of Hull

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Rubinstein is a member of the Religious Society of Friends

Religious Society of Friends

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 and a Quaker author. He used to live in Tours

Tours

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, and is now an honorary fellow of the University of York

University of York

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Publications

A selection of Rubenstein's work:

• 1969: The Evolution of the Comprehensive School, 1926-1966 (Authored with Brian Simon. London: Routledge) ISBN 0710063571
• 1969: Leisure Transport and the Countryside (Authored with Colin Speakman. London: Fabian Society) ISBN 0716312778
• 1969: School Attendance in London, 1870-1904: A Social History (New York: A.M. Kelley) ISBN 0678080003
• 1970: Education for Democracy (Edited with Colin Stoneman. New York: Penguin) ISBN 0140801995
• 1972: Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia (Authored with Yrjo O. Alanen)
• 1972: World's Way
• 1973: People for the People: Radical Ideas & Personalities in British Social History (London: Ithaca Press) ISBN 0903729024
• 1974: Victorian Homes (North Pomfret, VT: David & Charles) ISBN 071536765X
• 1980: Education and Equality
• 1981: Marx and Wittgenstein: Social Praxis and Social Explanation
• 1986: Before the Suffragettes: Women's Emancipation in the 1890's (Brighton, Sussex, UK: Harvester) ISBN 0710810512
• 1991: A Different World for Women: The Life of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf) ISBN 0710811047
• 1999: But He'll Remember: An Autobiography, William Sessions Limited
• 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) ISBN 1845190556
• 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 1904446183