Overview
- Very highprofile subjects, including some of the most celebrated historians working today, such as David Cannadine and Ian Kershaw
- Also includes responses and contributions from the historians themselves
- Publication timed to coincide with a series of seminars at the Institute for Historical Research which Snowman is involved with
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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About this book
Who are the men and women who have helped make the past of such absorbing interest to the present, and how have they done so? In his stimulating anthology of essays about the life and work of some of our leading historians, Daniel Snowman provides a vivid snapshot of history and historians in our new century.
Included in Historians are: Jeremy Black, John Brewer, Asa Briggs, Peter Burke, David Cannadine, Linda Colley, Norman Davies, Natalie Zemon Davis, Christopher Dyer, Richard J. Evans, Niall Ferguson, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Orlando Figes, Eric Foner, Roy Foster, Antonia Fraser, Eric Hobsbawm, Geoffrey Hosking, Lisa Jardine, John Keegan, Ian Kershaw, John Morrill, Laurence Rees, Lyndal Roper, Simon Schama, Peter Stansky, David Starkey, Theodore Zeldin.
Reviews
'a curious element in the book is the occasional 'reply' by the subject of the pen portrait. These make fascinating reading, subtly correcting an undue emphasis in Snowman's account of their life while straining not to be immodest... It is in the replies that the best bits are found.' - Archives: The journal of the British Records Association
"The great strength of this collection ... is its variety... Snowman's snapshots of outstanding historians are always entertaining." - Jewish Chronicle"A curious element in the book is the occasional 'reply' by the subject of the pen portrait. These make fascinating reading, subtly correcting an undue emphasis in Snowman's account of their life while straining not to be immodest... It is in the replies that the best bits are found." - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Historians
Authors: Daniel Snowman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-59997-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8805-8Published: 10 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58731-2Published: 18 February 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59997-0Published: 10 November 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 320
Topics: Historiography and Method, Cultural History, Social History