Remembered past : John Lukacs on history, historians, and historical knowledge : a reader / edited by Mark G. Malvasi and Jeffrey O. Nelson.

Author: Lukacs, John, 1924-2019.

Imprint:Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, c2005.

Descriptionxxiv, 922 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:I. THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE: 1. The presence of historical thinking (2002) -- 2. About historical factors, or the hierarchy of powers (1968) -- 3. History and physics (196) -- 4. Polite letters and Clio's fashions (1998) -- 5. American history: the terminological problem (1992) -- 6. The historiographical problem of belief and of believers: religious history in the democratic age (1978) -- 7. What is history? (2003) -- 8. Historical revisionism (1999) -- II. HISTORIANS REVIEWED: 9. George Bancroft (1961) -- 10. Page Smith (1965) -- 11. Oswald Spengler (1966) -- 12. George Kennan (1967) -- 13. Guy Chapman and Alistair Horne (1969) -- 14. Jacques Barzun (1975) -- 15. Charles-Olivier Carbonell (1977) -- 16. David Irving (1977) -- 17. William Appleman Williams (1980) -- 18. Jakob Burckhardt (1985) -- 19. Harold Nicolson (1985) 20. Alexis de Tocqueville (1988) -- 21. Henry Adams (1993) -- 22. Christopher Dawson (1993) -- 23. Paul W. Schroeder (19914) -- 24. Brigitte Hamann (1999) -- 25. François Furet (1999) -- 26. Gabriel Gorodetsky (1999) -- 27. Michael Burleigh (2001) -- 28. Lord Acton (2001) -- 29. Roy Jenkins (2001) -- 30. Winston Churchill (2002) -- 31. Klaus Larres (2003) -- 32. Richard M. Gamble (2004) -- III. DISSENTING OPINIONS (OR: A FEW OTHER PROSAISTS): 33. E.L. Docctorow (1975) -- 34. Isaiah Berlin and Leo Tolstoy (1980) -- 35. Hannah Arendt (1990) -- 36. Tom Wolfe (1988) -- 37. Whittaker Chambers (1989) -- 38. Francis Fukuyama and Graham Fuller (1992) -- 39. Ian Buruma (1999) -- 40. Arthur Koestler (2000) -- 41. Stephen M. Ambrose, Steve Neal, James C. Humes (2002) -- 42. Simone Weil (1990) -- IV. PLACES AND TIMES: 43. Budapest 1900: colors, words, sounds (1988) -- 44. Philadelphia 1950 (1981) -- 45. In darkest Transylvania (1982) -- 46. Gasterinertal (1990) -- 47. A night at the Dresden opera (1986) -- 48. Letter from Normandy (1995) -- 49. Three days in London: Churchill's funeral (1979) -- 50. Hitler's birthplace (1994) ---V. SOME TWENTIETH-CENTURY QUESTIONS: 51. Questions about Pius XII (1964) -- 52. Halfway to 1984 (1966) --53. Questions about Roosevelt and the Second World War (1990) -- 54. Revisiting Joseph Goebbels (1988) -- 55. Hitler: the historical problem (1997) -- 56. The poverty of anticommunism (1999) -- 57. The problem of American conservatism (1984) -- 58. The elective monarcy (1984) -- 59. The bourgeois interior (190) -- 60. Mechanic (2002) -- VI. READING, WRITING, AND TEACHING HISTORY: 61. Teaching (1990) -- 62. Writing (1990) -- 63. What is happening to history (1977) -- 64. Selections from A Thread of Years: 1901, 1945, 1968 (1998) -- 65. The Great Gatsby? Yes, a historical novel (2001) -- 66. Agnes Repplier, writer and essayist (1981) -- 67. A student's guide to the study of history (2000)

Bibliography Note:"Bibliography of the published writings of John Lukacs, 1947-2003": p. [783]-[832].

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 833-894) and index.

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