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Adventures of a Postmodern Historian Adventures of a Postmodern Historian Living and Writing the Past Robert A. Rosenstone Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2016 © Robert A. Rosenstone, 2016 Robert A. Rosenstone has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4742-7421-0 PB: 978-1-4742-7422-7 ePDF: 978-1-4742-7424-1 ePub: 978-1-4742-7423-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Rosenstone, Robert A., author. Title: Adventures of a postmodern historian : living and writing the past / Robert A. Rosenstone, California Institute of Technology. Description: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015047334 (print) | LCCN 2016019857 (ebook) | ISBN 9781474274227 (paperback) | ISBN 9781474274210 (hardback) | ISBN 9781474274234 (ePub) | ISBN 9781474274241 (ePDF) Subjects: LCSH: Rosenstone, Robert A. | Historians--Biography. | Historiography. | BISAC: HISTORY / Historiography. | HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. Classification: LCC D15.R64 A3 2016 (print) | LCC D15.R64 (ebook) | DDC 907.2/02 [B] --dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2015047334 Cover design: Liron Gilenberg Cover image © Flirt / Alamy Stock Photo Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN Small sections of Chapters 1, 2, and 3 have appeared in the following journals: Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Reviews in American History, and Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice In loving memory of my parents My father, Louis, who used to read the Mother West Wind stories in the Montreal Star to me every afternoon in the forties And my mother, Anne, who read all the books I was assigned in literature classes as an English major in the fifties Contents Acknowledgments x Foreword xii Prologue: Adventures of a Historian? 1 1 Spain: Crusade of the Left 9 2 Soviet Union: Romantic Revolutionary 49 3 Japan: Mirror in the Shrine 101 4 Hollywood: Visions of the Past 145 Epilogue: Stories from the Past 187 Notes 195 Bibliography 197 Index 201
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