Bruce mazlish biography

Mazlish was hired as an instructor at MIT in 1955.
Bruce Mazlish, a highly regarded historian who served as a professor of history at MIT for more than 50 years, died of natural causes on Nov. 27.
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A New Science

“What makes this book stand out is the way in which Mazlish situates sociology in the broader context of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century social thought. This is the most interesting treatment I have read of how there came to be a felt need for sociology, of how a place was created in the intellectual firmament for this new science.”—Craig Calhoun, University of North Carolina

“Although numerous able interpreters have attempted syntheses of the sociological tradition, Mazlish is the first to search so boldly for its ultimate intentions. . . . Beginning students will find this a stimulating, wittily written introduction to the history of sociology.”—Harry Liebersohn, American Historical Review

“An accessible, fascinating, erudite, and provocative tour de force with a memorable, even gripping, conclusion. It is a must for both college and general libraries.”—Choice

Bruce Mazlish is Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Art

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Bruce Mazlish

American historian (1923–2016)

Bruce Mazlish (September 15, 1923 – November 27, 2016) was an American historian who was a professor in the Department of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1] His work focused on historiography and philosophy of history, history of science and technology, artificial intelligence, history of the social sciences, the two cultures and bridging the humanities and sciences (natural and social), revolution, psychohistory, history of globalization and the history of global citizenship. He worked to build the latter two fields of inquiry into a public intellectual movement, through initiatives such as the New Global History conferences.^[2]

Early life and education

Bruce Mazlish was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. His father, Louis Mazlish, had immigrated as a teenager from what was then Russia. A largely self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Louis Mazlish started a laundry service for which he developed much of the equipment. He married Lee Reuben in 1919, and had three children, of

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Bruce Mazlish personal archives

Collection

Identifier: MC-0734

Scope and Contents

The Bruce Mazlish personal archives consists of research files, correspondence, notebooks, teaching materials, and material relating to professional organizations including the Toynbee Foundation.

Research files comprise the bulk of the collection and were created and collected by Mazlish. Many of these files relate to research undertaken for writing and teaching. Much of the material is published by third parties with handwritten notes by Mazlish. There are also drafts and original writing present. Some of the research files are in alphabetical order by topic. Research projects represented include but are not limited to research on New Global History, Globalism, psychohistory, narcissism, Richard Nixon, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mills. Research files date from 1919 to 2016.

Correspondence is present throughout the collection and dates from 1950 to 2012. It consists largely of conference planning (particularly the many Global History conferences Maz