Word: carr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Came in from the Cold, Le Carr...
...Carr finds particularly promising the growth of political consciousness in the world. He isn't bothered by the claims of men like Erich Fromm that the rise of modern society has forged an "alienated" man. "People have more education now, and more culture. There is a breaking down of old class barriers. There are more opportunities now, and people are making more of their opportunities. And these are people who once had nothing at all." The historian is daunted in this faith by neither "teenage rowdyism" nor tribal warfare in Africa. "You have to remember that the African countries...
...Carr's principal arguments in What Is History? is that a historian can be understood only by looking at his environment. He likes to explain his own unyielding optimism by pointing to his pre-World War I education. "We had a great sense of historical progress then. We did worry after World War I, but we soon had the feeling that we were getting things back on the rails again." After World War II, "there was the same sort of disillusionment, but we got a new wind, a new sense of direction. I still have that same feeling...
...Carr first entered academic life in 1935, when he became a professor of history at the University of Wales. He had spent most of the Years after 1918 in government service, including several years in the foreign office. By 1939 he had published his first important book, The Twenty Year's Crisis, a study of international politics since 1919. After World War II, he began his work on Soviet Russia, and has interrupted it only to put out What is History? A don at Oxford for ten years after the war, Carr switched to Trinity College, Cambridge...
This is not the historian's first trip to the United States; he has come here several times in the last few years. Carr senses that Americans have lost their feeling of omnipotence over the past ten years, but hasn't paid particular attention to American attitudes on this trip. "I came over only to look at your archives, and I haven't seen very much else. There's no real hurry, is there?" And there was that same unassuming smile...