title: Martin Wiener
text: # Martin Wiener
  
  Martin Joel Wiener (born 1941) is an American academic and author. He is currently a research professor at Rice University.
  
  Keith Joseph gave a copy of Wiener's book English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit: 1850–1980 to every cabinet minister.
  
  ## Selected bibliography
  
  * Between two worlds : The political thought of Graham Wallas, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
  * English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit 1850–1980. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1981.
     * English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit 1850–1980. Paperback edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin books, 1985.
     * English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit 1850–1980. New edition. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2004.
  * Review article "Treating 'Historical' Sources as Literary Texts: Literary Historicism and Modern British History," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 70, No. 3, September 1998
  * Reconstructing the criminal : culture, law and policy in England, 1830–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  * Men of blood : violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  * An Empire on Trial: Race, murder and justice under British rule 1870–1835, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  * Edgerton, D. (2006) Warfare State: Britain, 1920 – 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  * Edgerton, D. (1991) England and the Aeroplane – An Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation.
  