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Global biographies : lived history as method /
Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history - 'time and periodization', 'exceptional normal' and 'space and scales' - and a broad and critically reflective set of case-studies spanning the g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester [UK] :
Manchester University Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Time and periodization
- 1 Wilsonian moments: Thanassis Aghnides between empire and nation state
- 2 Making sense of 1956: experiencing and negotiating the socialist project in Iceland
- 3 Colonial masculinity: monarchy, military, colonialism, fascism and decolonization
- 4 Jewish medical students in Vienna between two world wars
- Part II. Exceptional normal
- 5 Just an African radical? A Zambian at the edge of the Third World
- 6 Exceptionally normal (post-)Ottomans: how failure shaped the futures of Balkan heroes
- 7 The exceptional normal: Hugh Lenox Scott (1853-1934) and the United States' imperial expansion
- 8 A fateful beginning: Mehmed Cavid Bey, politics and finance in the global Middle East, 1908-14
- Part III. Space and scales
- 9 Scholar, refugee worker, Jew: Koppel S. Pinson (1904-61)
- 10 Transnational agitator and union activist: James W. Ford and the Communist push into the Black Atlantic
- 11 A woman with a typewriter: the international career of Dorothea Weger
- 12 A white Atlantic life: the money, books, and family of Adrian Bentzon
- Index