UID:
almafu_9959240348102883
Format:
1 online resource (410 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8131-8531-9
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0-8131-5927-X
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0-8131-7088-5
Content:
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 1930's as the threats
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; 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
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Bibliography Acknowledgments; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-59720-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8131-2206-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
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