James Harvey Robinson Biography

James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863–February 16, 1936) taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University before helping to found the New School for Social Research and becoming its first director in 1919.

Bibliography

The German Bundesrath. A study in comparative constitutional law. By James Harvey Robinson. Philadelphia, 1891.

Constitution of the kingdom of Prussia. Translated and supplied with an introduction and notes by James Harvey Robinson. Philadelphia: American academy of political and social science, 1894.

An introduction to the history of western Europe, by James Harvey Robinson. Boston: Ginn & co., 1902.

The development of modern Europe; an introduction to the study of current history, by James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Beard. 2 vols. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1907-08.

The new history; essays illustrating the modern historical outlook, by James Harvey Robinson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912; Reprint, New York: Free Press, 1965.

The middle period of European history, from the break-up of the Roman empire to the opening of the eighteenth century, by James Harvey Robinson. Boston: Ginn, 1915.

History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome, by James Henry Breasted. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1920.

The mind in the making: the relation of intelligence to social reform, by James Harvey Robinson. New York: Harper & brothers, 1921.

The humanizing of knowledge, by James Harvey Robinson. New York: G. H. Doran, 1923; Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1971.

The ordeal of civilization; a sketch of the development and world-wide diffusion of our present-day institutions and ideas, by James Harvey Robinson. New York; London, Harper & brothers, 1926.

Essays in intellectual history, dedicated to James Harvey Robinson by his former seminar students. New York London, Harper & brothers, 1929; Reprint, New York, AMS Press, 1973.

History of Europe, our own times; the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the opening of the twentieth century, the world war and recent events, by James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Beard. Rev. ed. Boston: Ginn and company, 1932.

Our world today and yesterday; a history of modern civilization, by James Harvey Robinson and Emma Peters Smith, with the collaboration of James Henry Breasted. Boston: Ginn and company, 1932.