Harold Perkin: 4 books

Book cover of The Origins of Modern English Society
by Harold Perkin
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...
Book cover of The Rise of Professional Society
by Professor Harold Perkin, Harold Perkin
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...
Book cover of The Third Revolution

The Third Revolution

Professional Elites in the Modern World

by Professor Harold Perkin, Harold Perkin
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...
Book cover of Key Profession

Key Profession

The History of the Association of University Teachers

by Harold Perkin
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...
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