Raymond Grew

{{Short description|American historian (1930–2020)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Raymond Grew

| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|10|28}}

| birth_place = San Jose, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|09|13|1930|10|28}}

| death_place = Eugene, Oregon, U.S.

| spouse = Daphne Merriam (married 1952-2013)

| children = 3

}}

Raymond Grew (October 28, 1930 – September 13, 2020) was an American social historian of France and Italy and a Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Michigan.{{cite web|title=Profile of Prof. Emeritus R. Grew|url=https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/emeritus/rgrew.html|accessdate=18 August 2018|publisher=University of Michigan}}{{cite book|last=Chambers|first=Mortimer|title=The Western Experience: To the Eighteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y5ntAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=29 June 2011|year=2007|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-07-325086-1|page=vi}}

Grew graduated from Harvard University in 1951 and received a Ph. D. from Harvard in 1957. During this period, on August 16, 1952, he married Daphne Merriam in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Harvard 315. Cambridge: Harvard Yearbook Publications, 1951. Print. p. 78.

Grew died in Eugene,Death Certificate State of Oregon Oregon on September 13, 2020, at the age of 89.{{cite web |title=Raymond Grew |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/registerguard/name/raymond-grew-obituary?pid=196814750 |website=Legacy |access-date=30 December 2023}}{{cite web |title=Raymond Grew: A Tribute |url=https://toynbeeprize.org/posts/raymond-grew-a-tribute/ |website=Toynbee Prize Foundation |access-date=30 December 2023 |date=11 November 2020}}

Major publications

  • {{cite journal|author=Raymond Grew|title=How Success Spoiled the Risorgimento|journal=The Journal of Modern History|volume=34|issue=3|date=September 1962}}
  • {{cite journal|author1=Patrick J. Harrigan|author2=Raymond Grew|title=The Catholic Contribution to Universal Schooling in France, 1850-1906|journal=The Journal of Modern History|volume=57|issue=2|date=June 1985}}
  • {{cite book|author=Raymond Grew|title=School, State and Society: The Growth of Elementary Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France A Quantitative Analysis|publisher=The University of Michigan Press|date=1991}}
  • {{cite book|author=Raymond Grew|title=Food and Global History|publisher=Westview Press|location=Boulder|date=1999}}
  • {{cite book|author=Raymond Grew|chapter=Culture and Society|title=Italy in the Nineteenth Century|editor=John A. Davis|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2000}}
  • {{cite book|author=Raymond Grew|title=The Construction of Minorities|publisher=University of Michigan Press|location=Ann Arbor|date=2001}}

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