R. H. Tawney

R. H. Tawney
R. H. Tawney
Nascimento 30 de novembro de 1880
Calcutá
Morte 16 de janeiro de 1962 (81 anos)
Londres
Residência Inglaterra
Sepultamento Cemitério de Highgate
Cidadania Reino Unido, Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda
Alma mater
Ocupação historiador, economista
Empregador(a) London School of Economics, Universidade de Glasgow
Escola/tradição Socialismo cristão
Socialismo ético
Causa da morte doença

Richard Henry "R. H." Tawney (Calcutá, Índia, 30 de novembro de 1880Londres, 16 de janeiro de 1962) foi um historiador econômico,[1][2] crítico social,[3][4] e socialista cristão inglês.[5][6] e um proponente importante da educação de adultos.[7][8] O The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1997) cita que Tawney teve um "impacto significativo" em todos esses papéis inter-relacionados".[9]

  1. Magnus Magnusson (ed.) (1996, quinta ed.), Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Chambers, Edinburgh, ISBN 0-550-16041-8 paperback, p. 1435
  2. Rose Benét, William (1988). The Reader’s Encyclopedia terceira ed. London: Guild Publishing (by arrangement with A.C. Black). p. 961. One of the foremost students of the development of capitalism. 
  3. Nicholls, C.S. (1996). The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography. Oxford: Helicon. p. 836. ISBN 1-85986-157-1 
  4. Thane, Pat (2001). Cassell’s Companion to Twentieth Century Britain. London: Cassell & Co. p. 377 - 378. ISBN 0-304-34794-9. Tawney remained an influential social thinker from the interwar years through to the 1950s. 
  5. Gardiner, Juliet (ed.); et al. (1995). The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown. p. 734. ISBN 1-85585-261-6 
  6. Ormrod, David (1990). Fellowship, Freedom & Equality: Lectures in Memory of R.H. Tawney. London: Christian Socialist Movement. p. 9. ISBN 0-900286-01-6. Tawney’s was undoubtedly the most forceful and authentic voice of Christian socialist prophecy to be raised during the 1920s and 30s, echoing into the 1950s. 
  7. Drabble, M.(ed.) (1987), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 965
  8. Elsey, B. (1987) "R. H. Tawney – Patron saint of adult education", in P. Jarvis (ed.) Twentieth Century Thinkers in Adult Education, Croom Helm, Beckenham: Tawney is “the patron saint of adult education”
  9. Cannon, John (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Companion to British History. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Softback Preview ed.). p. 909 

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