William Cornelius Lubenow (born in

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in 1939) holds the

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. He serves as

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of the

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, and

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of the American Associates Committee of Parliament History. Lubenow is also a member of the

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. His many academic distinctions include:

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and

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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).

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 {{US-historian-stub