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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, William, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historians--United States--Biography.

Historians.

History--Study and teaching--United States.

History.

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

United States.

United States--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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 1930's as the threats

Contents:

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

Bibliography Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-8531-9

0-8131-5927-X

0-8131-7088-5

OCLC:

65183792