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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
©2008.
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| Series: | Studies in German history ;
v. 9. |
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| Summary: | 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 structures, institutions, and organizations, or more recentlywith the daily lives of ordinary people and small communities. The contributors to this volumeall well known senior historiansoffer self-critical reflections on problems they encountered when writing biographies themselves. Some of them also deal with. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780857450494 0857450492 |