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Thinking with History

Explorations in the Passage to Modernism

Thinking with History( )
Author: Schorske, Carl E.
Series title:Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN:978-0-691-63538-5
Publication Date:Apr 2016
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $104.00
Book Description:

In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siecle Vienna--draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultures. In most intellectual and artistic fields, Schorske argues, twentieth-century Europeans and Americans have come t

Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: History / Civilization
History / Europe / General
Philosophy / Aesthetics
History / Historiography
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.435 x 9.126 x 0.792 Inches
Book Weight:1.122 Pounds
Author Biography
Schorske, Carl E. (Author)
Carl Emil Schorske was born in the Bronx, New York on March 15, 1915. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and a master's degree from Harvard University before serving in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. After the war, he returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. He taught at several universities including the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, and Wesleyan University. In 1966, he was one of 10 "great teachers" pictured on the cover of Time magazine.

He wrote several books during his lifetime including Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture, German Social Democracy, 1905-1917, and Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism. In 1981, he received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and was among the first class of recipients of a MacArthur fellowship, the so-called genius award. He died on September 13, 2015 at the age of 100.

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