Biography between structure and agency : Central European lives in international historiography /

While bookstore shelves around the world have never ceased to display best-selling "life-and-letters" biographies in prominent positions, the genre became less popular among academic historians during the Cold War decades. Their main concern then was with political and socioeconomic struct...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berghahn, Volker R. (Volker Rolf), 1938-, Lässig, Simone, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2008.
Colección:Studies in German history ; v. 9.
Temas:
Europeans > Europe, Central > Biography > History and criticism.
Social sciences > Biographical methods.
Européens > Europe centrale > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Sciences sociales > Histoires de vie.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Historiography
Social sciences > Biographical methods
Europe, Central > Historiography.
Europe centrale > Historiographie.
Central Europe
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page-Biography between Structure and Agency; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1-Introduction; Chapter 2-Biography and the Historian; Chapter 3-Dreams and Nightmares; Chapter 4-Gustav Stresemann; Chapter 5-Women's Biographies-Men's History?; Chapter 6-Historiography, Biography, and Experience; Chapter 7-A Historian's Life in Biography Perspective; Chapter 8-The Heroic Ecstasy of Drunken Elephants; Chapter 9-Generational Experience and Genocide; Chapter 10-Criminal Biographies and Biographies of Criminals; Chapter 11-From Himmler's Circle of Friends to the Lions Club.
  • Chapter 12-Contexts and Contradictions; Chapter 13-The Improbable Biography; Chapter 14-Structuralism and Biography; Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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