PDF⋙ Engagement with the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians by William Palmer
Engagement with the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians by William Palmer Engagement with the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians by William Palmer PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad 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 the Great Depression, Hitler, and Communism loomed over them, saw their careers interrupted by World War II, and faced the prospect of nuclear annihilati...