Krishan Kumar

University Professor & William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology

Teaching Interests: Nationalism and nation identity, Europe, global history, and problems of historical sociology
Research Interests: Stratification, Social & Political Thought, Political Sociology, Culture and Comparative-Historical Sociology

Publications

Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology

Krishan Kumar

Polity (2021)

Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World

Krishan Kumar

Princeton University Press (2017)

From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society

Krishan Kumar

Wiley-Blackwell (2004)

The Making of English National Identity

Krishan Kumar

Cambridge University Press (2009)

1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals

Krishan Kumar

University of Minnesota Press (2001)

Public and Private in Thought and Practice

Krishan Kumar

University of Chicago Press (1997)

Utopias and the Millennium

Krishan Kumar

Reaktion Books (1993)

Utopianism

Krishan Kumar

Open University Press (1991)

The Rise of Modern Society

Krishan Kumar

Blackwell Publishers (1988)

Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times

Krishan Kumar

Blackwell Publishers (1987)

Dilemmas of Liberal Democracies: Studies in Fred Hirsch's Social Limits to Growth

Krishan Kumar

Tavistock Publications (1983)

Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial Society

Krishan Kumar

Viking Press (1978)

Revolution: The Theory and Practice of a European Idea

Krishan Kumar

Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1971)