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Engagement with the past : the lives and works of the World War II generation of historians / William Palmer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 372 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0813170885
  • 9780813170886
  • 9780813159270
  • 081315927X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Engagement with the past.DDC classification:
  • 973/.07/2022 22
LOC classification:
  • E175.45 .P35 2001eb
Other classification:
  • 15.01
Online resources:
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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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: 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 1930s as the threats of.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-354) and index.

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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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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 1930s as the threats of.

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