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

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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
Main Author: Palmer, William, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1930-2000.
Historiografia > Estados unidos.
Historici.
Biografie
Historiker
Social conditions
History > Study and teaching.
Historiography.
Historians.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Histoire > Étude et enseignement > États-Unis.
Historiens > États-Unis > Biographies.
History > Study and teaching > United States.
Historians > United States > Biography.
USA.
Estados Unidos (CondiÇÕes Sociais) > 1945-
Grossbritannien
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1945-
United States > Historiography.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Writing Historians' Lives
  • Lives
  • Beginnings
  • Harvard, the 1930s, and the Making of a Historical Generation
  • Other American Colleges and Universities
  • The English University Experience in the 1930s
  • V Was for Victory
  • Building Careers in the Postwar World
  • At the Pinnacle (Mostly)
  • Teaching
  • Achievement
  • The Cultural Critics
  • The Controversialists
  • The Archival Revolution
  • Synthesis, Printed Sources, and Other Kinds of History.

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