E. H. Carr

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British historian, journalist, diplomat and political scientist (1892-1982)

United Kingdom WritersLived 1892 to 1982 · aged 90

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Edward Hallett Carr was a British English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography.

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In his 1939 book The Twenty Years' Crisis, Carr attacked Norman Angell as a utopian thinker on international relations.

Carr's History of Soviet Russia runs to 14 volumes and has been extended into the 1930s by historian R. W. Davies and others.

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Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Fellow of the British Academy

Porson Prize

Cross of Liberty 3rd Division, 3rd Class

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SpouseBetty Abigail Behrens

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William Henry Fox TalbotAlso won Porson Prize

Reynold A. NicholsonAlso won Porson Prize

Stanisław Haller de HallenburgAlso won Cross of Liberty 3rd Division, 3rd Class

Enoch PowellAlso won Porson Prize

Christopher WordsworthAlso won Porson Prize

Sidney RowlattAlso won Porson Prize

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Edward Hallett Carr 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.

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