LEADER 03172nam 2200649 450 001 9910777551503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-8531-9 010 $a0-8131-5927-X 010 $a0-8131-7088-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000460341 035 $a(EBL)1915172 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000147406 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11989830 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147406 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10013909 035 $a(PQKB)10018519 035 $a(OCoLC)65183792 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse44051 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1915172 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11007365 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL691002 035 $a(OCoLC)900344539 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1915172 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000460341 100 $a20150131h20012001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEngagement with the past $ethe lives and works of the World War II generation of historians /$fWilliam Palmer 210 1$aLexington, Kentucky :$cThe University Press of Kentucky,$d2001. 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (410 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-59720-0 311 $a0-8131-2206-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aBibliography Acknowledgments; Index 330 $aArthur 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 606 $aHistorians$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aHistory$xStudy and teaching$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1945- 607 $aUnited States$xHistoriography 615 0$aHistorians 615 0$aHistory$xStudy and teaching 676 $a973/.07/2022 700 $aPalmer$b William$f1951-$01559295 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777551503321 996 $aEngagement with the past$93824272 997 $aUNINA