Overview
This collection includes Daniel Bell’s unpublished manuscripts: The Exhausted Isle, Theories of Social Change : A Stocktaking, Socialism: a historical sketch, Perestroika; and The history of the idea of the future.
Dates
- Creation: [circa 1960s-1990]
Creator
- Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
Permission to publish
Permission to publish is required through August 27, 2037.
Extent
0.50 cubic feet (1 extra wide document box)Biographical / Historical
Daniel Bell (1919-2011) was a sociologist and a professor at Harvard University from 1969 to 1990. He was the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences. Prior to entering academic life, Bell was a journalist and activist, serving as labor editor of Fortune magazine, managing editor of the socialist weekly the New Leader, and editor of Common Sense. He founded Public Interest with Irving Kristol.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Daniel Bell unpublished manuscripts and was acquired by the Harvard University Archive through donation:
- Accession 18605; received 2012 November 20 from David Bell and Jordy Bell
Inventory update
This document last updated 2019 April 10.
Processing Information
Processed in November 2017 by Jennifer Pelose.
Creator
- Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011 (Person)
- Title
- Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011. Daniel Bell unpublished manuscripts, [circa 1960s-1990] : an inventory
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hua23017
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard University Archives Repository
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