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E. H. Carr
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British historian, journalist, diplomat and political scientist (1892–1982)
E. H. Carr was a British historian, journalist, diplomat, and political scientist who lived from 1892 to 1982 and became one of the most influential thinkers about how we understand history. He matters because his ideas about history as interpretation rather than simple fact-recording fundamentally shaped how historians and scholars approach their work.
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- Born
- 28 Jun 1892
- Died
- 3 Nov 1982
- Works
- 82
Top works
- Prawattisāt khơ̄ ʻarai
- 1917 [i.e. Mil novecientos diecisiete]
- 和平之條件
- What is history?
- The New Society
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,828x
- Effects of Diffusion on Free Precession in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments
· 1954 · cited 5,655x
- THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
· 2009 · cited 4,651x
- The Connectivity Map: Using Gene-Expression Signatures to Connect Small Molecules, Genes, and Disease
· 2006 · cited 4,600x
- Orexins and Orexin Receptors: A Family of Hypothalamic Neuropeptides and G Protein-Coupled Receptors that Regulate Feeding Behavior
· 1998 · cited 4,569x
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Quotes
- “The vogue of Marxism in Great Britain and France, which began on a modest scale after the success of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, rapidly gathered momentum, particularly among intellectuals, after 1934, when it was discovered that Soviet Russia was a potential military ally against Germany.”
- “The historian and the facts of history are necessary to one another. The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. My first answer therefore to the question, What is History?, is that it is a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past.”
- “It is nonsense to say that generalization is foreign to history; history thrives on generalizations.”
- “History properly so-called can be written only by those who find and accept a sense of direction in history itself. The belief that we have come from somewhere is closely linked with the belief that we are going somewhere. A society which has lost belief in its capacity to progress in the future will quickly cease to concern itself with its progress in the past.”
- “The essential result of the French revolution was to establish the doctrine of popular sovereignty as the foundation of modern Europe, though with no more precise definition of that elusive category "the people" than that popular sovereignty was the antithesis of the personal authority of the monarch.”
- “In short, with the triumph of the industrial revolution and its inevitable consequence, the rise of the class-conscious proletariat, nothing could ever be the same again-not even political revolutions.”
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- 1
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- date of birth
- 1892-06-28
- date of death
- 1982-11-03
- name in native language
- Edward Hallett Carr
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- Anartia amathea
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Edward Hallett Carr CBE FBA (28 June 1892 – 3 November 1982) was a British English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography. Carr was best known for A History of Soviet Russia, a 14-volume history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1929, for his writings on international relations, particularly The Twenty Years' Crisis, and for his book What Is History? in which he laid out historiographical principles rejecting traditional historical methods and practices.
Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Carr began his career as a diplomat in 1916 and in 1919 he participated in the Paris Peace Conference as a member of the British delegation. Becoming increasingly preoccupied with the study of international relations and of the Soviet Union, he resigned from the Foreign Office in 1936 to begin an academic career. From 1941 to 1946, Carr worked as an assistant editor at The Times, where he was noted for his leaders (editorials) urging a socialist system and an Anglo-Soviet alliance as the basis of a post-war order.