Bernard Semmel
Biographic Data
| ID | 248845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Semmel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Semmel |
| SIGNATURE | SEMMEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social-Imperialism
Imperialism and Social Reform: English Social-Imperial Thought 1895–1914
Imperialism and Social Reform (1960) examines British social-imperialism and the development of social-imperial thought: the promotion of a ‘people’s imperialism’, or the support of the working classes for the imperialist system. It looks at the social and economic background and analyses the various forms of social-imperial thought, including the vigorous strand of imperial-socialists, who asserted that the welfare of the working classes depende…
The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin
George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance
In this stimulating intellectual history of the ideas behind George Eliot’s novels, Bernard Semmel argues that the popularity of Eliot’s fiction can be attributed to a nostalgia for a lost heritage. Writing at a time when society was transforming itself from a traditional to a modern one, Eliot, however, viewed herself as intellectually ‘disinherited’, largely because of her estrangement from her father and brother. Through detailed analyses of E…
The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin.
As Great Britain and other Western nations built empires - both formal and informal - writers on economic and social questions developed theories to explain why and how advanced industrial states exercised control over colonial regions. Different schools of thought emerged: some anticipated the growth of a cosmopolitan economic order, others believed in a brutal imperialism necessary for an expanding capitalism, still others saw evil pre-capitali…
George Eliot and the politics of national inheritance
In this stimulating history of the ideas behind George Eliot's novels, Bernard Semmel explores her imaginative use of the theme of inheritance, as a metaphor for her political thinking. Through detailed analyses of Eliot's novels and other writings, and a study of the intellectual currents of the time, Semmel demonstrates how and why Eliot's views on inheritance provided central ideas for her fiction. Semmel uncovers Eliot's intent when she wrote…
British Social Reform and German Precedents: The Case of Social Insurance, 1880-1914
This is a study of one of the central themes of pre-1914 British history - the move towards social reform and the accompanying growth of collectivism and bureaucracy. It focuses on the conditions under which Britain was willing to borrow political devices from imperial Germany and the problems inherent in borrowing from a different political culture. Compulsory social insurance had been pioneered by Germany in the 1880s to deal with the consequen…
The People's Silence: The Popular Political Economy of Exploitation and Crisis, 1816-34 . Noel W. Thompson
Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713-1826
Colonialism, 1870-1945: An Introduction
On 'The Geometry of Imperialism
Giovanni Arrighi’s The Geometry of Imperialism (NLB, 1978) is an effort by a well-known Italian Marxist economist to deal critically with the Leninist theory of imperialism. That theory, as Arrighi observes, is virtually the only theory of Marxism to which non-Marxist economists give serious consideration. More specifically, the
H. T. Buckle: The Liberal Faith and the Science of History
The Methodist Revolution
The Methodist Revolution
Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
The Liberal Imperialists: The Ideas and Politics of a Post-Gladstonian Elite
The Birth of Methodism in England
Quest for the New Moral World: Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America, by J. F. C. Harrison
Journal Article Quest for the New Moral World: Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America, by J. F. C. Harrison Get access Quest for the New Moral World: Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America. by J. F. C. Harrison. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969.—xi, 392 pp. $7.95. Bernard Semmel Bernard Semmel State University of New York at Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Polit…
Books reviewed
The Rise of the United Association: National Unionism in the Pipe Trades, 1884–1924. By Martin Segal. Published by the Wertheim Committee, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1970. 244 pp. $8.00. Cry From the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmer's Union and the New Deal. By Donald H. Grubbs. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1971. 192 pp. $8.50. Labour and Unemployment, 1900–1914. By K. D…
Milner's Young Men: The "Kindergarten" in Edwardian Imperial Affairs. Walter Nimocks
Books reviewed
Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century, by Franklin W. Knight. Madison, Milwaukee, and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970, 228 pp., $10.00. The Depression of the Ninettes: An Economic History. By Charles Hoffmann. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1970. 283 pp. $12.50. Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous…
The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism: Classical Political Economy and the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism, 1750-1850
Revolutionists in London: A Study of Five Unorthodox Socialists
The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism: Classical Political Economy the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism 1750–1850
The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism seeks to uncover some of the intellectual origins of the imperialism of the classic period, the sources from which later theories of imperialism were constructed, and the character of the ideology which underlay the dismantling of the old colonial system and the construction of the Victorian Pax Britannica. The author discusses the development and diffusion of a number of the central arguments of the 'science' o…
Splendid Isolation: A Study of Ideas Concerning Britain’s International Position and Foreign Policy During the Later Years of the Third Marquis of Salisbury, by Christopher Howard ; The Illusion of Pe…
Imperialism and Social Reform: English Social-Imperial Thought
Colonialism, 1870-1945: An Introduction
The Hume-Tucker Debate and Pitt's Trade Proposals
Journal Article The Hume-Tucker Debate and Pitt’s Trade Proposals Get access Bernard Semmel Bernard Semmel State University of New York at Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 75, Issue 300, 1 December 1965, Pages 759–770, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229674 Published: 01 December 1965
Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy: The Close of the Nineteenth Century, by J. A. S. Grenville
Journal Article Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy: The Close of the Nineteenth Century, by J. A. S. Grenville Get access Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy: The Close of the Nineteenth Century. By J. A. S. Grenville. London, The Athlone Press, 1964.–xi, 451 pp. $8.00. Bernard Semmel Bernard Semmel State University of New York, Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 8…
Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713-1826
The Philosophic Radicals and Colonialism
In 1948, in an address before this association, the late J. B. Brebner spoke of laissez-faire as a "myth," describing it as a battle cry of the middle classes in their struggle with the landed aristocracy, and noting particularly that the philosophic Radicals-the Benthamites-were proponents not of laissez-faire, as they had been represented to be, but of a new bureaucratic collectivism. It is becoming clear that the reputed mid-Victorian policy o…
Karl Pearson: Socialist and Darwinist
principal subject of debate in Imperial Germany, as indeed it had zbeen in most of the civilized nations of Europe since the publication of Darwin's Ortgin of Species in I 859. The leader of the German opposition to Darwinism was Rudolf Virchow, the formulator of the cellular theory. Virchow employed a wide variety of arguments in his attack upon the evolutionists. In one of his addresses, in September I877, he made use of what was regarded by hi…
Malthus: Physiocracy' and the Commercial System
The Methodist Revolution
The Making of the English Working Class
The Conservative Tradition. R. J. White The Liberal Tradition. Alan Bullock , Maurice Shock The Radical Tradition. S. MacCoby
The New World of Henri Saint-Simon . Frank E. Manuel
Sir William Ashley as 'Socialist of the Chair
Karl Pearson: Socialist and Darwinist
principal subject of debate in Imperial Germany, as indeed it had zbeen in most of the civilized nations of Europe since the publication of Darwin's Ortgin of Species in I 859. The leader of the German opposition to Darwinism was Rudolf Virchow, the formulator of the cellular theory. Virchow employed a wide variety of arguments in his attack upon the evolutionists. In one of his addresses, in September I877, he made use of what was regarded by hi…
Nationalization in Britain: The End of a Dogma. R. Kelf-Cohen
The Philosophic Radicals and Colonialism
In 1948, in an address before this association, the late J. B. Brebner spoke of laissez-faire as a "myth," describing it as a battle cry of the middle classes in their struggle with the landed aristocracy, and noting particularly that the philosophic Radicals-the Benthamites-were proponents not of laissez-faire, as they had been represented to be, but of a new bureaucratic collectivism. It is becoming clear that the reputed mid-Victorian policy o…
Imperialism and Social Reform: English Social-Imperial Thought
Parliament and the Metric System
The Making of the English Working Class
Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy: The Close of the Nineteenth Century, by J. A. S. Grenville
Journal Article Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy: The Close of the Nineteenth Century, by J. A. S. Grenville Get access Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy: The Close of the Nineteenth Century. By J. A. S. Grenville. London, The Athlone Press, 1964.–xi, 451 pp. $8.00. Bernard Semmel Bernard Semmel State University of New York, Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 8…
The Hume-Tucker Debate and Pitt's Trade Proposals
Journal Article The Hume-Tucker Debate and Pitt’s Trade Proposals Get access Bernard Semmel Bernard Semmel State University of New York at Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 75, Issue 300, 1 December 1965, Pages 759–770, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229674 Published: 01 December 1965
Malthus: Physiocracy' and the Commercial System
"Parliament and the Metric System" -- A Reply
Revolutionists in London: A Study of Five Unorthodox Socialists
The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism: Classical Political Economy the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism 1750–1850
The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism seeks to uncover some of the intellectual origins of the imperialism of the classic period, the sources from which later theories of imperialism were constructed, and the character of the ideology which underlay the dismantling of the old colonial system and the construction of the Victorian Pax Britannica. The author discusses the development and diffusion of a number of the central arguments of the 'science' o…
Splendid Isolation: A Study of Ideas Concerning Britain’s International Position and Foreign Policy During the Later Years of the Third Marquis of Salisbury, by Christopher Howard ; The Illusion of Pe…
Books reviewed
Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century, by Franklin W. Knight. Madison, Milwaukee, and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970, 228 pp., $10.00. The Depression of the Ninettes: An Economic History. By Charles Hoffmann. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, 1970. 283 pp. $12.50. Mill Town: A Social History of Everett, Washington from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous…
The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism: Classical Political Economy and the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism, 1750-1850
Quest for the New Moral World: Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America, by J. F. C. Harrison
Journal Article Quest for the New Moral World: Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America, by J. F. C. Harrison Get access Quest for the New Moral World: Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America. by J. F. C. Harrison. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969.—xi, 392 pp. $7.95. Bernard Semmel Bernard Semmel State University of New York at Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Polit…
Books reviewed
The Rise of the United Association: National Unionism in the Pipe Trades, 1884–1924. By Martin Segal. Published by the Wertheim Committee, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1970. 244 pp. $8.00. Cry From the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmer's Union and the New Deal. By Donald H. Grubbs. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1971. 192 pp. $8.50. Labour and Unemployment, 1900–1914. By K. D…
Milner's Young Men: The "Kindergarten" in Edwardian Imperial Affairs. Walter Nimocks
The Birth of Methodism in England
The Liberal Imperialists: The Ideas and Politics of a Post-Gladstonian Elite
The Methodist Revolution
The Methodist Revolution
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