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Artful history : a practical anthology /
"A collection of memorable, stirring, and eloquent historical essays, designed to help any historian write more artfully. Is there any reason that serious historical scholarship cannot receive literary expression? Isn't it possible that the most committed empiricists and postmodernists mig...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | New directions in narrative history.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- From "The death of woman Wang" (1978) / Jonathan Spence
- From "Mirror in the shrine" (1988) / Robert Rosenstone
- From "Dead certainties" (1991) / Simon Schama
- From "Aristocrats" (1994) / Stella Tillyard
- Lose your mother (2007) / Saidiya Hartman
- "The cause of her grief" : the rape of a slave in early New England (2007) / Wendy Warren
- The historian as death investigator (2011) / Stephen Berry
- The importance of being turbaned (2011) / Paul A. Kramer
- From "Conversions" (2011) / Craig Harline
- Benjamin Franklin's disciples (2012) / Amy Reading
- All about erections (2012) / Jill Lepore
- From "Jim Crow wisdom" (2013) / Jonathan Holloway
- For the love of stories (1998) / James Goodman
- What it will take to turn historians into writers (2001) / Louis P. Masur
- Letters to a tenured historian : history as creative nonfiction-or maybe even poetry (2010) / Aaron Sachs
- Novelties : a historian's field notes from fiction (2011) / Jane Kamensky
- History in the head, history from the heart : a personal manifesto (2016) / John Demos.