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1 online resource (xvii, 372 pages) : illustrations |
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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-354) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Historians -- United States -- Biography
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History -- Study and teaching -- United States
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Historians
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Historiography
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History -- Study and teaching
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Social conditions
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Historiker
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Biografie
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Historici.
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Historiografia -- Estados unidos.
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Geschichte 1930-2000.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518
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United States -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
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United States
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Großbritannien
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USA
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Estados Unidos (CondiÇÕes Sociais) -- 1945-
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0813170885 |
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9780813170886 |
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9780813159270 |
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081315927X |
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