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A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990)

Autor de The Origins of the Second World War: 1919-1939

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British historian A.J.P. Taylor studied at Oxford University and in 1938 became a fellow of Magdalen College. Interested chiefly in diplomatic and central European history, he is a prolific and masterful writer. Fritz Stern wrote of him and his The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848--1918 (1954) mostrar más in the Political Science Quarterly: "There is something Shavian about A. J. P. Taylor and his place among academic historians; he is brilliant, erudite, witty, dogmatic, heretical, irritating, insufferable, and withal inescapable. He sometimes insults and always instructs his fellow-historians, and never more so than in his present effort to reinterpret the diplomatic history of Europe from 1848 to the end of the First World War. . . . After a brilliant introduction, in which he defines the balance of power and assesses the relative and changing strength of the Great Powers, Mr. Taylor presents a chronological survey, beginning with the diplomacy of war, 1914--1918. . . . [He] writes on two levels. He narrates the history of European diplomacy and compresses it admirably into a single volume. Imposed upon the narrative is his effort to probe the historical meaning of given actions and conditions. . . . He has a peculiar sense of inevitability, growing out of what he regards the logic of a given development, as well as a delicate feeling for live options and alternatives. Mr. Taylor suggests that fear, not aggression, was the dominant impulse of pre-war diplomacy." The Origins of the Second World War (1961), again controversial and lively, starts from the premise (in Taylor's words) that "the war of 1939, far from being premeditated, was a mistake, the result on both sides of diplomatic blunders." The New Statesman said of it: "Taylor is the only English historian now writing who can bend the bow of Gibbon and Macaulay. [This is] a masterpiece: lucid, compassionate, beautifully written in a bare, sparse style, and at the same time deeply disturbing." Several of Taylor's other works also received high praise. Among these were Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman (1955), in which he exonerated Bismarck; Hapsburg Monarchy, 1809--1914, a survey of the era; and English History, 1919--1945, a volume in the Oxford History of England Series, greeted by the N.Y. Review of Books as "an astonishing tour de force." (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras de A. J. P. Taylor

English History, 1914-1945 (1965) 636 copias
Europe: Grandeur and Decline (1967) 139 copias
From Sarajevo to Potsdam (1965) 129 copias
The War Lords (1977) 122 copias
History of World War I (1966) 77 copias
Beaverbrook (1896) 70 copias
How Wars Begin (1979) 59 copias
The Trouble Makers (1957) 54 copias
From Napoleon to Lenin (1952) 27 copias
The Russian war, 1941-1945 (1977) 27 copias
How Wars End (1985) 26 copias
20th Century vol. 1-20 (1979) 13 copias
An Old Man's Diary (1984) 11 copias
Essays presented to Sir Lewis Namier (1956) — Editor — 6 copias
Letters to Eva, 1969-83 (1991) 6 copias
Lloyd George: Twelve Essays (1971) — Editor — 3 copias
Trieste (1945) 2 copias
Englishmen and Others (1956) 2 copias

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Rústica editorial ilustrada. Mapas.
1ª edición en ingles 1965 Oxford Universitiy Press
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Alan John Percivale "A. J. P." Taylor, FBA (Birkdale, Lancashire, 25 de marzo de 1906 - Londres, 7 de septiembre de 1990) fue un historiador, periodista y escritor inglés especializado en la diplomacia europea de los siglos XIX y XX. Tanto como periodista y como locutor, se hizo muy conocido por millones de televidentes a través de sus conferencias por televisión.580
 
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