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- catalog abstract "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, Kenneth Stampp, C. Vann Woodward, John Hope Franklin, Edmund Morgan, Barbara Tuchman, Geoffrey Elton, Lawrence Stone, Hugh Trevor-Roper -- 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 most 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, and suffered interrupted careers during World War II. They lived through the Great Depression, Hitler, Communism, and the prospect of nuclear annihilation, and they gained from their experiences the perspective and insight necessary to write definitive histories on topies ranging from slavery to revolution.".
- catalog contributor b12246693.
- catalog coverage "United States Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1945-".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, Kenneth Stampp, C. Vann Woodward, John Hope Franklin, Edmund Morgan, Barbara Tuchman, Geoffrey Elton, Lawrence Stone, Hugh Trevor-Roper -- 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 most 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, and suffered interrupted careers during World War II. They lived through the Great Depression, Hitler, Communism, and the prospect of nuclear annihilation, and they gained from their experiences the perspective and insight necessary to write definitive histories on topies ranging from slavery to revolution.".
- catalog description "Includings bibliographical references (p. [345]-354) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 372 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Engagement with the past.".
- catalog identifier "0813122066 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Engagement with the past.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog relation "Engagement with the past.".
- catalog spatial "United States Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1945-".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "973/.07/2022 21".
- catalog subject "E175.45 .P35 2001".
- catalog subject "Historians United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "History Study and teaching United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Engagement with the past : the lives and works of the World War II generation of historians / William Palmer.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".