About Robert K. Webb
Lived 1922 – 2012 (aged 89). Robert K. Webb was an American historian and university teacher.
Robert Kiefer Webb (November 23, 1922 – February 15, 2012) was an American historian.
Webb was educated at Oberlin College, taking his AB summa cum laude in 1947.
Webb was survived by his wife Patty Webb, their daughters Emily Martin and Margaret Pressler, and six grandchildren.
Works The British Working Class Reader, 1790–1848: Literacy and Social Tension (1955). Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian (1960).
Modern England (1968). (with Peter Gay), Modern Europe since 1815 (1980).
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American historian
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Robert K. Webb was born on 23 November 1922.
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Robert K. Webb died on 15 February 2012.
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Robert K. Webb was a historian and university teacher.
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