Robert Westbrook

Biographic Data

ID681168
NAMERobert Westbrook
GIVEN NAMESRobert
FAMILY NAMEWestbrook
SIGNATUREWESTBROOK R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Rochester , Rochester, New York
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Only the Clothes on Her Back

    Open AccessRobert B Westbrook, Robert WestbrookARTICLEJournal of American History2023

    Journal Article Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States Get access Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Laura F Edwards. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xviii, 433 pp. $34.95.) Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Search for other works by this auth…

  • Creative Democracy—the Task Still before Us

    Open AccessRobert B Westbrook, Robert WestbrookARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2021

    This essay looks to Thomas Jefferson and John Dewey, as well as a contemporary political theorist, Kevin O'Leary, for some guidance in confronting the present crisis in American democratic norms and practices—including that swirling around issues of public health

  • George Herbert Mead and the Promise of Pragmatist Democracy

    Robert B Westbrook, Robert WestbrookCHAPTERTimeliness of George Herbert Mead2016

  • Response to Giles Gunn

    Open AccessRobert B Westbrook, Robert WestbrookARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1994

    I REGRET THAT GILES GUNN FOUND MY REVIEW OF HIS BOOK SNOBBISH and dismissive. I do not, however, believe my review constitutes a screed. A mixed review, no doubt. But I thought I made it clear that Gunn's book is not (roughly) half bad. Gunn charges me with hair-splitting in my efforts to reserve the term for a set of arguments about more or less epistemological questions of knowledge, meaning, and truth. But I think it is important to insist on …

  • The Origins of American Social Science

    Robert B Westbrook, Robert Westbrook et al.REVIEWJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article The Origins of American Social Science. By Dorothy Ross. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxii + 508 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-521-35092-1.) Get access Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 613–615, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080053 Published: 01 September 1992

  • Lewis Mumford

    Robert B Westbrook, Robert Westbrook et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Lewis Mumford: A Life. By Donald L. Miller. (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. xxiv + 628 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 716, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079302 Published: 01 September 1990

  • Consuming Images

    Robert Westbrook, Robert A Westbrook et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1988

  • The Lyrical Left

    Robert B Westbrook, Robert Westbrook et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article The Lyrical Left: Randolph Bourne, Alfred Stieglitz, and the Origins of Cultural Radicalism in America. By Edward Abrahams. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. xv + 265 pp. $20.00.) Get access Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Page 209, https://doi.org/10.230…

  • Horrors - Theirs and Ours

    Robert WestbrookARTICLERadical History Review1986

    Research Article| October 01 1986 Horrors — Theirs and Ours: The Politics Circle and the Good War Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (36): 9–25. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1986-36-9 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Westbrook; Horrors — Theirs and Ours: The Politics Circle and th…

  • Good-bye to All that

    Robert WestbrookARTICLERadical History Review1984

  • Dewey's Truth

    Robert B Westbrook, Robert Westbrook et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1980