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Engagement with the Past : the Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians.

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 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Palmer, William, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Writing Historians' Lives; PART I: Lives; 1. Beginnings; 2. Harvard, the 1930s, and the Making of a Historical Generation; 3. Other American Colleges and Universities; 4. The English University Experience in the 1930s; 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.