Geoffrey Barraclough

Geoffrey Barraclough (10 May 1908 – 26 December 1984) was an English historian, known as a medievalist and historian of Germany. Quotes The rising generation will inevitably look back over the twentieth century with different priorities from ours. Born into a world in which - as all present indications suggest - the major questions will not be European questions but the relationships between Europe, including Russia, and America and the peoples of Asia and Africa, they will find little relevance in many of the topics which engrossed the attention of the last ,generation. The study of contemporary history requires new perspectives and a new scale of values. quoted in Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day. Claude Alphonso Alvares, 1991 Quotes about For that reason alone, he might well prove to be the first universal historian of the twentieth century, which means that universities in any part of the world, north and south, could prescribe him with little unease. Decolonizing History: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West 1492 to the Present Day. Claude Alphonso Alvares, 1991 External links Category:1908 births Category:1984 deaths Category:Military personnel from Bradford Category:Writers from Bradford Category:People educated at Ackworth School Category:Chichele Professors of Modern History Category:Academics of the University of Liverpool Category:Academics of the University of London Category:Brandeis University faculty Category:Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Category:Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Category:Bletchley Park people Category:Royal Air Force officers Category:English medievalists Category:People educated at Bradford Grammar School Category:People educated at Bootham School Category:20th-century English historians Category:20th-century English male writers Category:Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Category:Civil servants in the Foreign Office Category:Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Category:Fellows of Merton College, Oxford Category:English male non-fiction writers