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Historians

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Authors:
  1. Daniel Snowman
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  • 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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About this book

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.

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: Historians Today

    • Daniel Snowman
    Pages 1-18

  3. David Cannadine

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    Pages 19-30

  4. Eric Hobsbawm

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    Pages 31-40

  5. Peter Burke

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    Pages 41-49

  6. Theodore Zeldin

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    Pages 50-61

  7. Asa Briggs

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    Pages 62-70

  8. Eric Foner

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    Pages 71-81

  9. John Keegan

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    Pages 82-92

  10. Geoffrey Hosking

    • Daniel Snowman
    Pages 93-102

  11. Antonia Fraser

    • Daniel Snowman
    Pages 103-112

  12. David Starkey

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    Pages 113-123

  13. Ian Kershaw

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    Pages 124-133

  14. Roy Foster

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    Pages 134-142

  15. Lyndal Roper

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    Pages 143-153

  16. Christopher Dyer

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    Pages 154-164

  17. Peter Stansky

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    Pages 165-174

  18. Natalie Zemon Davis

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    Pages 175-186

  19. Linda Colley

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    Pages 187-197

  20. Orlando Figes

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    Pages 198-207
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Reviews

'... [T]he 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
"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

About the author

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.  

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

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