William Rubinstein

William Rubinstein

William D. Rubinstein (born August 12, 1946) is a historian and author. His most well-known work, "Men of Property: The Very Wealthy in Britain Since the Industrial Revolution", charts the rise of the so-called 'super rich', a class he sees as expanding exponentially.

Early life

Rubinstein was born in New York, and educated at Swarthmore College and Johns Hopkins University in the United States.

Career

Rubinstein worked at Lancaster University in England from 1974-1975, the Australian National University in Canberra from 1976-1978, Deakin University in Victoria, Australia from 1978-1995, and works at the Aberystwyth University currently.

Rubinstein has held chairs of history at Deakin and Aberystwyth Universities, and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences, and of the Royal Historical Society.

Rubinstein was President of the Jewish Historical Society of England from 2002-2004, and was the editor of the articles on Britain and the Commonwealth (except Canada) in the second (2006) edition of the standard reference work, "The Encyclopedia Judaica".

Career as author

Rubinstein is known for his research on the wealth-holding and elite classes in modern Britain, making use of the probate and other taxation records, in such works as "Men of Property: The Very Wealthy in Britain Since the Industrial Revolution" (1981) and "Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain, 1750-1990" (1991). More recently he has co-authored (with Philip Beresford) "The Richest of the Rich" (2007), an account of the 250 richest-ever people in British history since the Norman Conquest.

Rubinstein is published in such works as "A History of the Jews in the English-Speaking World: Great Britain" (1996) and in a well-known controversial work, "The Myth of Rescue" (1997), which argues that the democracies could not have saved more Jews during the Holocaust. He has also published widely on Australian Jewish history.Fact|date=November 2007

Rubinstein also researches unconventional history, and topics discussed by "amateur historians" but ignored by academics. His "Shadow Pasts" (2007) examines such topics as the assassination of President Kennedy, Jack the Ripper, and the Shakespeare authorship question. He also explored the topic of who wrote Shakespeare’s works in a book he co-authored with Brenda James, "The Truth Will Out" (2005), which argues that Sir Henry Neville (c.1562-1615), an Elizabethan Member of Parliament and Ambassador to France, was almost certainly the real author of Shakespeare’s works.

Bibliography

* The Biographical Dictionary of Life Peers
* The Myth Of Rescue
* Britain's Century: A Social and Political History, 1815-1905 (The Arnold History of Britain)
* Men of Property: The Very Wealthy in Britain Since the Industrial Revolution
* Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain, 1750-1990
* A History of the Jews in the English Speaking World: Great Britain (Studies in Modern History)
* Menders of the Mind: A History of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 1946-1996 (co-author)
* Philosemitism: Admiration and Support in the English-speaking world for Jews, 1840-1939 (co-author)
* The Jews in the Modern World Since 1750 (co-author)
* Shadow Pasts (co-author)
* The Richest of the Rich (co-author)

References

External links

* [http://www.librarything.com/author/rubinsteinwd| Free text versions of several books]


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