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Includes contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and North America, this collection explores diverse approaches to writing the lives of historians and ways of assessing the importance of doing so. Beginning with the writing of autobiographies by historians, the volume th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Australian National University Press
Otros Autores: Munro, Doug (Editor ), Reid, John G. (John Graham), 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017.
Colección:ANU.Lives series in biography.
Temas:
Historians > North America > Biography.
Historians > Australia > Biography.
Authorship in literature > Biography.
Art d'écrire dans la littérature > Biographies.
Autobiography: historical, political and military.
Biography and True Stories.
Biography: general.
Biography: historical, political and military.
HISTORY > General.
Authorship in literature.
Historians.
Australia.
North America.
Australian
Biography
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction / Doug Munro and John G. Reid
  • Autobiographies of Historians. 2. Writing history/writing about yourself: what's the difference? / Sheila Fitzpatrick
  • 3. Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: three autobiographies of childhood and coming of age / Doug Munro and Geoffrey Gray
  • 4. The female gaze: Australian women historians' autobiographies / Ann Moyal
  • Nation-Defining Authors. 5. 'A gigantic confession of life': autobiography, 'national awakening' and the invention of Manning Clark / Mark McKenna
  • 6. Ceci n'est pas Ramsay Cook: a biographical reconnaissance / Donald Wright
  • Discipline-defining authors. 7. Intersecting and contrasting lives: G.M. Trevelyan and Lytton Strachey / Alastair MacLachlan
  • 8. An ingrained activist: the early years of Raphael Samuel / Sophie Scott-Brown
  • 9. Pursuing the antipodean: Bernard Smith, identity and history / Sheridan Palmer
  • Collective Biography. 10. Australian historians networking, 1914-1973 / Geoffrey Bolton
  • 11. Country and kin calling? Keith Hancock, the National Dictionary Collaboration, and the promotion of life writing in Australia / Melanie Nolan
  • 12. Imperial women: collective biography, gender and Yale-trained historians / John G. Reid
  • 13. Concluding reflections / Barbara Caine.

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