Pieter Geyl and Britain encounters, controversies, impact
Pieter Geyl (1887-1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial. Having come to the UK as a journalist, he started his academic career at the University of London in the aftermath of World War I (1919)...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of London Press
[2022]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684438406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Notes on contributors
- List of figures
- 1. Geyl and Britain: an introduction
- 2. The Greater Netherlands idea of Pieter Geyl (1887-1966)
- 3. Pieter Geyl and Émile Cammaerts: the Dutch and Belgian chairs at the University of London between academia and propaganda, 1914-35
- 4. Pieter Geyl and the Institute of Historical Research
- 5. 'It's a part of me': the literary ambitions of Pieter Geyl
- 6. Pieter Geyl and the idea of federalism
- 7. Debating Toynbee after the Holocaust: Pieter Geyl as a post-war public historian
- 8. Pieter Geyl and the eighteenth century
- 9. The historiographical legacy of Pieter Geyl for revolutionary and Napoleonic studies
- 10. Pieter Geyl and his entanglement with German Westforschung
- 11. Between Leuven and Utrecht: the afterlife of Pieter Geyl and the 'Greater Netherlands idea'
- Bibliography
- Index.
