John Richard Green (redirected from J. R. Green)

Green, John Richard 

Born Dec. 12. 1837, in Oxford; died Mar. 7, 1883, in Mentone. English positivist historian.

Green was the author of the Short History of the English People (1874; Russian translation, fascs. 1–3, 1897–1900), which was later expanded into the four-volume History of the English People (1877–80; Russian translation, vols. 1–4, 1891–92). His works, which gave a liberal, nationalistic interpretation of the historical process, were the first attempt at a synthetic elucidation of the history of the social and cultural development of England. Marx used A History of the English People for his study of the history of England (see Arkhiv Marksa i Engel’sa, vol. 8, Moscow. 1946).