| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge approaches to history ; 15 |
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Routledge approaches to history ; 15.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Humanistic Style: On the Nature of History; 2 The Biographical Approach: Historians Describing the Self; 3 Autobiography as Scholarship: French Ego-histoire; 4 Autobiography as History: The Monographic Approach to the Self; 5 Postmodernism and the Self: Autobiography as Poetry; 6 Autobiography as Historiography: The Interventional Mode; Conclusions; Index |
| Summary |
Edmund Carr wrote, "[S]tudy the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates and the context of key twentieth- and twenty-first-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary studies on autobiography with theories of history, it provides a sys-tematic and detailed analysis of the autobiographies of the most outstanding historians, from the classic texts by Giambattista Vico, Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams, to the Annales historians such as Fernand Braudel, Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, to Marxist historians such as Eric Hobsbawm and Annie Kriegel, to postmodern historians such as Carolyn Steedman, Robert A. Rosenstone, Carlos Eire, Luisa Passerini, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Gerda Lerner and Sheila Fitzpatrick, and to "interventional" historians such as Geoff Eley, Jill Ker Conway, Natalie Davis and Gabrielle Spiegel. Using a comparative approach to these texts, this book identifies six historical- autobiographical styles: humanistic, biographic, ego-historical, monographic, postmodern, and interventional. By privileging historians' autobiographies, this book proposes a renewed history of historiography, one that engages the theoretical evolution of the discipline, the way history has been interpreted by historians and the currents of thought and ideologies that have dominated and influenced its writing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 29, 2015) |
| Subject |
Historiography -- History
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Historians -- Biography
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Autobiography.
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Autobiographies as Topic
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autobiography (genre)
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HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
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Autobiography
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Historians
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Historiography
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315678030 |
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1315678039 |
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9781317389972 |
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1317389972 |
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9781317389958 |
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1317389956 |
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9781317389965 |
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1317389964 |
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