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User Review - jontseng - LibraryThingNotable in enlivening the dusty halls of British (principally English) academic historians. At its best its does a really good job in bringing out the clashes of egos behind the histories. Notably evocative on Macaulay and informative on Namier also. Read full review
Contents
The Enlightenment and NeoWhiggism | 39 |
The High Victorians | 85 |
The Professionalization of History | 144 |
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| Title | The History Men: The Historical Profession in England Since the Renaissance Volume 202 of Pitt paperback |
| Author | John Philipps Kenyon |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 1, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0822959003, 9780822959007 |
| Length | 322 pages |
| Subjects | › History / General |
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