E.H.Carr A Critical Appraisal [Hardcover]

E.H. Carr (1892-1982) was born into security but lived a life of controversy. Attacked for appeasing both Hitler and Stalin, he was not only one of the most productive writers of the Twentieth-century but one of its most provocative as well. In this book - the first ever to deal critically but fairly with Carr's contribution to international relations, Soviet Studies and the study of history - sixteen internationally respected authors grapple with his complex intellectual legacy. For those seriously interested in understanding the life and times of this most English of establishment radicals this is the place to begin.Acknowledgements Foreword; J.Carr Notes on the Contributors An Autobiography; E.H.Carr Introduction: E.H.Carr: A Critical Reassessment; M.Cox LIFE AND TIMES E.H. Carr's Search for Meaning: 1892-1982; J.Haslam E.H. Carr - The Aberystwyth Years: 1936-47; B.Porter 'An Active Danger': E.H.Carr at The Times , 1940-46; C.Jones THE RUSSIAN QUESTION Carr's Changing Views of the Soviet Union; R.W.Davies The Soviet Carr; S.White E.H. Carr and Isaac Deutscher: A Very 'Special Relationship'; M.Cox E.H. Carr, the Cold War and the Soviet Union; H.Ticktin INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Carr and his Early Critics: Responses to The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1939-1946; P.Wilson E.H. Carr and the Quest for Moral Revolution in International Relations; P.Rich Theories as Weapons: E.H.Carr and International Relations; T.Dunne E.H. Carr, Nationalism and the Future of the Sovereign State; A.Linklater Reason and Romance: The Place of Revolution in the Works of E.H. Carr; F.Halliday WHAT IS HISTORY? The Lessons of What is History? A.Stephanson An English Myth? Rethinking the Contemporary Value of What is History?; K.Jenkins E.H. Carr and the Historical Mode of Thought; R.Germain Appendix 1: E.H. Carr: Chronology of his Life and Work 1892-1982 Appendix 2: Papers of E.H. Carr, 1892-1982: Historian Index

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