| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910777551503321 |
|
|
Autore |
Palmer William <1951-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Engagement with the past : the lives and works of the World War II generation of historians / / William Palmer |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2001 |
|
©2001 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
0-8131-8531-9 |
0-8131-5927-X |
0-8131-7088-5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (410 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Historians - United States |
History - Study and teaching - United States |
United States Social conditions 1945- |
United States Historiography |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Writing Historians' Lives; PART I: Lives; 1. Beginnings; 2. Harvard, the 1930's, and the Making of a Historical Generation; 3. Other American Colleges and Universities; 4. The English University Experience in the 1930's; 5. V Was for Victory; 6. Building Careers in the Postwar World; 7. At the Pinnacle (Mostly); 8. Teaching; PART II: Achievement; 9. The Cultural Critics; 10. The Controversialists; 11. The Archival Revolution; 12. Synthesis, Printed Sources, and Other Kinds of History; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes |
Bibliography Acknowledgments; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., John Hope Franklin, Daniel Boorstin, C. Vann Woodward, Edmund S. Morgan, Barbara Tuckman, Eric Hobsbawn, Hugh Trevor Roper, Lawrence Stone -- aside from carrying the distinction as some of the most successful and well-respected historians of the twentieth century, these scholars found their lives and careers evolving amid some of the world's pivotal historical moments. Dubbed the World War II Generation, the twenty-two English and American historians |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
chronicled by William Palmer grew up in the aftermath of World War I, went to college in the 1930's as the threats |
|
|
|
|
|
| |