Harold Perkin: 4 books
by Harold Perkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Bringing together subjects such as culture, religion, morals, politics, economics, and mentality, Perkin presents and applies a holistic concept of social history in the tradition of great historians of the past.
In this classic text of social history, Harold Perkin explores the emergence of...
The Rise of Professional Society
England Since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2003
The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based...
The Third Revolution
Professional Elites in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union. It praises their achievements, but also...
Key Profession
The History of the Association of University Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Originally published in 1969 Key Profession looks at the rise of the academic profession to its influence and importance, through the history of the Association of the University of Teachers, founded in 1919 and celebrating its half-centenary in 1969. As a study of a professional organization and...