Colton, Joel
COLTON, Joel
COLTON, Joel. American, b. 1918. Genres: History. Career: Duke University, Durham, NC, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of History, 1989- (Professor, 1947-89; Chairman of Dept., 1967-74). Member, International Commission on the History of Social Movement and Social Structures, 1975- (Co-President, 1985-90). Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1979-. Director for Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, 1974-81. Member, Board of Eds., Journal of Modern History, 1968-71; Member, Board of Eds., French Historical Studies, 1985-88; Advisory Board, Historical Abstracts, 1982-. Publications: Compulsory Labor Arbitration in France 1936-1939, 1951; (with R.R. Palmer) A History of the Modern World, 2nd ed., 1956, 9th ed. (with R.R. Palmer and L. Kramer), 2002; Leon Blum: Humanist in Politics, 1966, 1987; Time-Life Great Ages of Man series, Twentieth Century, 1968, rev. ed., 1980; (ed.) The Contemporary Humanities in International Context, 1976; The Search for a Value Consensus, 1978; The Restoration of the Liberal Arts Curriculum, 1979; (ed. with S. Bruchey) Technology, the Economy, and Society: The American Experience, 1986; (with others) The Academic's Handbook, 1988, 2nd ed., 1995; The French and Spanish Popular Fronts: Comparative Perspectives, 1989.