Raymond Grew

Raymond Grew (born October 28, 1930) is a social historian of France and Italy and a Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Michigan.

Grew graduated from Harvard University in 1951 and received a Ph. D. from Harvard in 1957. During this period, on August 16, 1952, he married Daphne Merriam in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Major publications

• "How Success Spoiled the Risorgimento," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 34, No. 3, September 1962
• Coauthored with Patrick J. Harrigan, "The Catholic Contribution to Universal Schooling in France, 1850-1906," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 57, No. 2, June 1985
• School, State and Society: The Growth of Elementary Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France A Quantitative Analysis, (The University of Michigan Press, 1991).
• Food and Global History (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999).
• "Culture and Society," in Italy in the Nineteenth Century, John A. Davis, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
• The Construction of Minorities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).