Hugh Trevor-Roper
Subtitle: the historian
By: edited by Blair Worden
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781784531249
Subjects: Historians
Description: More than any other historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) remains a vitalizing intellectual presence in Britain and beyond. convinced of the historian's duty to inform and stimulate the public mind, he traversed the boundaries of professional specialization in search of broad conclusions, drawn from reflection on problems across time and space, that would bring a historical dimension to contemporary thought and debate. These essays, whose authors include some of the most distinguished historians of their own generation, supply the first extensive assessment of the development and content of his historical philosophy and of tachievementsnts and significance of his writing. Drawing on his rich private archive, with its voluminous drafts and revealing correspondence, the essays address a wide range of his subject-matter, as well as exploring recurrent features of his work: his belief in controversy, his espousal of unconventional opinions, his literary sensibility, and his exhilarating prose. There is particular attention to the two historical areas on which he wrote most: the era, British and Europeafrom thethe Renaissance, through the wars of religion, to the Enlightenment; and the Second World War, which, after his own career in wartime intelligence, produced his most famous book, The Last Days of Hitler. The essays illuminate not only Trevor-Roper's own career but the preoccupations and values of a generation shaped by the struggle against Hitler and then by the Cold War, experiences now sufficiently distant to be brought into historical focus.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.