Popular, prolific, and impassioned, British historian A. J. P. Taylor (1906-1990) was also outspoken, controversial, and quarrelsome. Taylor's many books, including The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, The Origins of the Second World War, and English History 1914-1945, changed the way history was written and read. His legendary television lectures, delivered live and unscripted, brought history to a huge popular audience. In this masterful biography, Kathleen Burk provides a perceptive account of the life and achievements of Britain's most famous twentieth-century historian. Burk draws on her personal acquaintance with Taylor in his later years and on an array of previously untapped archival materials to analyze the successes, failures, and controversies of Taylor's life as historian, Oxford don, broadcast journalist, husband, and friend. The author sets Taylor's professional work in the context of the development of history in England during the century, and she traces the relations between his writings and his reactions to domestic and foreign politics. Her account of Taylor's years at Oxford explores the customs and rituals of the academic community, his colleagues, and the successive crises that beset him personally and professionally. The book also assesses Taylor's political activities and his self-described role as an "impotent socialist," his development as a journalist and broadcaster, previously unknown financial aspects of his freelance activities, and his private upheavals, in particular his failed marriages.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300094531
ISBN-13
9780300094534
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2239696
Product Key Features
Author
Kathleen Burk
Publication Name
Troublemaker : the Life and History of A. J. P Taylor
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
498 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
25.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Copyright Date
2000
Topic
General, Historical
Dewey Decimal
907.2/02
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
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