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__NOTOC__ Clarence Crane Brinton (Winsted, Connecticut, 1898 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 7, 1968) was an American historian of France, as well as an historian of ideas. His most famous work, ''The Anatomy of Revolution'' (1938) likened the dynamics of revolutionary movements to the progress of fever.〔("Over the Hill? The Anatomy of Revolution at Fifty" ), Torbjørn L. Knutsen and Jennifer L. Bailey, ''Journal of Peace Research'', Vol. 26, No. 4 (Nov., 1989), pp. 421-431〕 Born in Winsted, Connecticut, his family soon moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he grew up and attended the public schools there before entering Harvard University in 1915. His excellent academic performance enabled him to win a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford University, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) degree 1923. Brinton then began teaching at Harvard University that same year, becoming full professor in 1942 and remaining at Harvard until his death.〔(Columbia Encyclopedia entry on Brinton )〕 For many years he taught a popular course at Harvard known informally to his students as "Breakfast with Brinton." Brinton was known for his witty, convivial, and urbane writing and commentary,〔(Reviews of Brinton's ''History of Western Morals'' )〕 and was fluent in French. During WWII he was for a time Chief of Research and Analysis in London in the Office of Strategic Services.〔(Reference to Brinton's work for OSS )〕 He was also Fire Marshal for St. Paul's Cathedral in London, which withstood the Blitz with minor damages. After the war, he was commended by the United States Army for "Conspicuous Contribution to the Liberation of France" and was chairman of the Harvard Society of Fellows in the late 1940s,〔(''Time'' 3 May 1948 article quoting Brinton as Society president )〕 whose membership during that period included McGeorge Bundy and Ray Cline, who became quite influential in national security and intelligence. In the early 1960s Brinton was the dissertation supervisor at Harvard of the young historian Will Johnston.〔Roderick Stackelberg, ''Memory and History: Recollections of a Historian of Nazism'' (2011), p. 88〕 He also served as an advisor for historian, Elizabeth Eisenstein, author of ''The Printing Press as an Agent of Change''. In 1963 Brinton was elected president of the American Historical Association. He was also president of the Society for French Historical Studies. On February 19, 1968 Brinton testified at the Fulbright Hearings on the Vietnam war as to the nature of the Vietnamese opposition, saying that Americans are sympathetic to a revolution but not a Communist one, and that if Ho Chi Minh had not been a Communist, "The whole story would have been different.".〔(the crimson.com )〕 He died on September 7, 1968. Brinton wrote a review of Carroll Quigley's book ''Tragedy and Hope.'' Among those his scholarship inspired were Samuel P. Huntington, who cited Brinton many times in his book ''Political Order in Changing Societies,'' and Robert Struble, Jr., in his ''Treatise on Twelve Lights.''〔For example, in his fifth chapter, ("Recourse to the Sword" ), of the online book ''Treatise on Twelve Lights''〕 ==Works== *''The Political Ideas of the English Romanticists''〔(jstor.og )〕 (1926, 1966) *''The Jacobins: An Essay in the New History''〔(books.google.com )〕 (1930), a detailed account of the political radicals of the French Revolution *''English Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century'' (1933) *''A Decade of Revolution, 1789-1799''〔(books.google.com )〕 (1934), a study of the French Revolution *"The History of Paper Money to the War," ''The Journal of Modern History'' Vol. 6, No. 3, September 1934 *''The Lives of Talleyrand''〔(books.google.com )〕 (1936), a biography of Talleyrand with a uniquely favorable perspective *''The Anatomy of Revolution'' (1938, revised 1965) *''Ideas and Men: the Story of Western Thought''〔(questia.com )〕 (1950, 1963), an account of Western thought from ancient Greece to the present *''A History of Western Morals''〔(archive.org )〕 (1959), an account of ethical questions *''The Shaping of the Modern Mind''〔(archive.org )〕 (1963), an abridged version of his ''Ideas and Men'' *"Ideas in History," ''The Journal of Modern History'' Vol. 37, No. 4, December 1965 *''The Americans and the French''〔(hup.harvard.edu )〕 (1968), an attempt to explain the often difficult relations between two longtime allies 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crane Brinton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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