Crane Brinton ( eng. Clarence Crane Brinton , 1898 , Winstead , Connecticut - September 7, 1968 , Cambridge , Massachusetts ) is an American historian , one of the largest experts in the history of ideas , professor at Harvard University .
| Crane Brinton | |
|---|---|
| English Clarence Crane Brinton | |
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| Date of Birth | 1898 |
| Place of Birth | Winstead , Connecticut |
| Date of death | September 7, 1968 |
| Place of death | Cambridge Massachusetts |
| A country | USA |
| Scientific field | story |
| Place of work | Harvard University |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic degree | Ph.D |
| Academic rank | Professor |
| Famous students | Richard Pipes |
| Known as | historian of ideas |
Biography
Born in Winstead , Connecticut , his family soon moved to Springfield , Massachusetts , where he grew up.
In 1915 he entered Harvard University , won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University .
Having received a Ph.D. in 1923, for many years he taught at Harvard a popular course, informally called "Breakfast with Brinton" by students. He was president of the American Historical Association , chairman of the Harvard Society of Fellows , as well as the Society for French Historical Studies .
He was the supervisor of the famous American historian, specialist in the history of Russia and the USSR, Richard Pipes .
Compositions
The author of a number of works, including (together with two co-authors) of the fundamental monograph “Modern Civilization. The History of the Last Five Centuries ”( Eng. Modern Civilization. A History of the Last Five Centuries . - Prentice-Hall, 1957).
In 1938, he published the book The Anatomy of Revolution , summarizing the experience of four revolutions: English, American, French and Russian.
Another work of Brinton - “Ideas and people. History of Western Thought ”- covers the history of the Western world from ancient Greece to our time. The book was written on the basis of lecture courses that the historian gave to senior students at Harvard University.
- The Jacobins: An Essay in the New History. - 1930; (study of the Jacobins - the political radicals of the French Revolution).
- A Decade of Revolution. - 1934; (study of the French Revolution).
- The Lives of Talleyrand. - 1936; (biography of Talleyrand).
- The Anatomy of Revolution. - 1938; 2nd ed. - 1965.
- Ideas and Men: the Story of Western Thought. - 1950; 1963.
- Ideas and people. History of Western Thought. / Per. from the English., foreword and notes by A. I. Fet . - Philosophical arkiv, Nyköping (Sweden), 2016 .-- 586 pp. ISBN 978-91-983073-0-6
- A History of Western Morals. - 1959.
- The Shaping of the Modern Mind. - 1963; (an abridged version of the work "Ideas and People").
- The origins of the modern world. History of Western Thought / Transl. Victor Frank. - Rome: Edizioni Aurora, 1971.- 479 p.
- The origins of the western way of thinking. / Per. Victor Frank, Demid Vasiliev. - Moscow School of Political Studies, 2003. - 432 p. - ISBN 5-93895-048-1
- The Americans and the French. - 1968; ("The Americans and the French" is an attempt to explain the complex relationship between the two allies).