Peter Geyl and Britain encounters, controversies, impact.

Pieter Geyl (1887-1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial. Having come to the UK as a journalist, he started his academic career at the University of London in the aftermath of World War I (1919)...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : UNIV OF LONDON PR, 2022.
Temas:
Geyl, Pieter, > 1887-1966.
Geyl, Pieter, > 1887-1966
Historians > Great Britain > Biography.
Historians > Netherlands > Biography.
Historians
Great Britain
Netherlands
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Notes on contributors
  • List of figures
  • 1. Geyl and Britain: an introduction
  • 2. The Greater Netherlands idea of Pieter Geyl (1887-1966)
  • 3. Pieter Geyl and Émile Cammaerts: the Dutch and Belgian chairs at the University of London between academia and propaganda, 1914-35
  • 4. Pieter Geyl and the Institute of Historical Research
  • 5. 'It's a part of me': the literary ambitions of Pieter Geyl
  • 6. Pieter Geyl and the idea of federalism
  • 7. Debating Toynbee after the Holocaust: Pieter Geyl as a post-war public historian
  • 8. Pieter Geyl and the eighteenth century
  • 9. The historiographical legacy of Pieter Geyl for revolutionary and Napoleonic studies
  • 10. Pieter Geyl and his entanglement with German Westforschung
  • 11. Between Leuven and Utrecht: the afterlife of Pieter Geyl and the 'Greater Netherlands idea'
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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