Martin Joel Wiener (born 1941) is an American academic and author. He is currently a research professor at
Rice University
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.
Keith Joseph gave a copy of Wiener's book ''
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit: 1850–1980'' to every
cabinet minister
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.
Selected bibliography
*''Between two worlds : The political thought of
Graham Wallas
Graham Wallas (31 May 1858 – 9 August 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, a leader of the Fabian Society and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
Biography
Born in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Walla ...
'', Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
*''English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit 1850–1980''. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1981.
**''English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit 1850–1980''. Paperback edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin books, 1985.
**''English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit 1850–1980''. New edition. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2004.
* Review article "Treating 'Historical' Sources as Literary Texts: Literary Historicism and Modern British History," ''The Journal of Modern History'' Vol. 70, No. 3, September 1998
*''Reconstructing the criminal : culture, law and policy in England, 1830–1914''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
*''Men of blood : violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England'', New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
* ''An Empire on Trial: Race, murder and justice under British rule 1870–1835'', New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
* Edgerton, D. (2006) Warfare State: Britain, 1920 – 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* Edgerton, D. (1991) England and the Aeroplane – An Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation.
References
1941 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Rice University faculty
American male non-fiction writers
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