Engagement with the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians

By William Palmer

Book Overview

" 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 Will

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813122066
• ISBN13: 9780813122069
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher