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Kathleen Burk

    Kathleen Mildred Burk ist emeritierte Professorin für moderne und zeitgenössische Geschichte am University College London. Ihre Expertise liegt im Bereich der Geschichte, wobei sie sich auf entscheidende historische Ereignisse und deren Auswirkungen konzentriert. Ihre Arbeit trägt zu einem tieferen Verständnis der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung und der internationalen Beziehungen bei. Durch ihre akademische Laufbahn hat sie Generationen von Studenten und Forschern im Bereich der Geschichtswissenschaften beeinflusst.

    Old World, New World
    Troublemaker: the life and history of A.J.P. Taylor
    • Old World, New World

      Great Britain and America from the Beginning

      • 464 Seiten
      • 17 Lesestunden

      Our close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as distinguished historian Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, recently published to acclaim in the United Kingdom, the close international relationship was forged only recently, preceded by several centuries of hostility and conflict that began soon after the first English colony was established on the newly discovered continent. Burk, a fourth-generation Californian and professor of history in London, draws on her unique knowledge of both countries to explore the totality of the relationship—the politics, economics, culture, and society—that both connected the two peoples and drove them apart. She tells the story from each side, beginning with the English exploration of the New World and taking us up to the present alliance in Iraq. At once sweeping in scope and intimate in detail, Old World, New World is a vivid, absorbing, and surprising story of one of the longest international love-hate relationships in modern history.

      Old World, New World2008
      3,6
    • A.J.P. Taylor was arguably the most influential and popular British historian of the 20th century. This biography explores Taylor's activities as historian, Oxford don, broadcast journalist, husband and friend during a brilliant life punctuated by success, failure and frequent controversy.

      Troublemaker: the life and history of A.J.P. Taylor2000
      3,0