Historians

2007. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8805-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever. History programmes on television can attract audiences in the millions, as do top heritage sites, while growing numbers of people pursue family and local history and join historical re-enactment societies. A bestselling history book can nowadays outsell a popular novel, something almost unimaginable fifty years ago.

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Snowman, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
David Cannadine (October 1998)
Eric Hobsbawm (January 1999)
Peter Burke (April 1999)
Theodore Zeldin (July 1999)
Asa Briggs (October 1999)
Eric Foner (January 2000)
John Keegan (May 2000)
Geoffrey Hosking (July 2000)
Antonia Fraser (October 2000)
David Starkey (January 2001)
Ian Kershaw (July 2001)
Roy Foster (October 2001)
Lyndal Roper (January 2002)
Christopher Dyer (May 2002)
Peter Stansky (July 2002)
Natalie Zemon Davis (October 2002)
Linda Colley (January 2003)
Orlando Figes (April 2003)
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (July 2003)
Lisa Jardine (October 2003)
Richard J. Evans (January 2004)
John Brewer (April 2004)
Simon Schama (July 2004)
Niall Ferguson (October 2004)
Laurence Rees (February 2005)
Jeremy Black (April 2005)
Norman Davies (July 2005)
John Morrill (October 2005)

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Snowman is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK. Educated at Cambridge and Cornell, he was a Lecturer at Sussex University and went on to work for the BBC as Chief Producer, Features (Radio). His books have tended to cross conventional historiographical boundaries, from Kissing Cousins (1977), a comparative study of British and American social attitudes and values, to The Hitler Emigrés (2002), which examined the cultural impact of refugees from Nazism. The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera (2009) was a pioneering attempt to place the history of opera in its widest historical perspective.