Joyce, Professor Patrick
© Patrick Joyce
As a historian interested in social theory and the theory of history, Joyce has stressed the need for historians to engage with the cultural turn and its aftermath, including postmodernism. His work in rethinking social history in the light of theory and of empirical research, mostly on 19th-century Britain, is particularly important. He has consistently challenged historical orthodoxies and developed new ways of doing history. See here for more details.
- Forenames:
- Patrick
- Surname:
- Joyce
- Title:
- Professor
- Institutions:
- London School of Economics
University of Manchester - Significant posts:
- Visiting Professorships in History and Sociology including the London School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley and San Diego, European University Institute, Florence, New York University, Max Planck Institute, Gottingen
Professor of Modern History, University of Manchester
- Influences:
- Bauman, Zygmunt
Bloch, Marc
Foucault, Michel
Hobsbawm, Eric
Samuel, Raphael
Thompson, E. P.
Vincent, John - Themes:
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Cultural history
Intellectual history
Labour history
Social history
Bibliography
Significant publications
- Patrick Joyce, Work, Society and Politics: the Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England (Brighton, 1980)
- Patrick Joyce, Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, 1840–1914 (Cambridge, 1991)
- Patrick Joyce, The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City (London, 2003)
- Patrick Joyce and Tony Bennett (eds), Material Powers: Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn (London, 2010)
- Patrick Joyce Power and the State: Making the Liberal Leviathan, 1780-1920 (Cambridge, 2012)
Other reading
- Patrick Joyce (ed.), The Oxford Reader on Class (Oxford, 1997)
- Patrick Joyce (ed.), The Historical Meanings of Work (Cambridge, 1987)
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Patrick Joyce, Democratic Subjects: the Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1994)
- Patrick Joyce (ed.), The Social in Question: New Bearings in History and Social Sciences (London, 2002)
- Patrick Joyce, Tony Bennett and Francis Dodsworth (eds.), "Liberalism, Government, Culture", Cultural Studies, 21:4-5, September 2007, 525-798
- Patrick Joyce, "What is the social in social history?", Past and Present, 206 (2010), 213-248
- Patrick Joyce, 'The return of history: postmodernism and the politics of academic history in Britain', Past and Present, 158 (1998), 207–35
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Patrick Joyce, 'The end of social history?', Social History, 20, 1 (1995), 73–91
- Patrick Joyce, 'More secondary modern than postmodern', Rethinking History, 5, 3 (2001), 367–82
