Historians by D Snowman

Historians by D Snowman

Over the years, Daniel Snowman has interviewed a selection of some of the finest historians alive. This book is an anthology of the resulting critical essays on these writers and their work. It provides an insight into how we regard the ever-shifting past, filtered through a group of colourful and sometimes controversial characters.

'.. [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

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.

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ISBN 13	9781403988058
ISBN 10	1403988056
Title	Historians
Author	D Snowman
Series	Latino Pop Culture Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Palgrave USA
Year published	2006-11-10
Number of pages	320
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