Global biographies: Lived history as method
Laura Almagor, "Global biographies: Lived history as method"
English | ISBN: 1526161168 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1526161168 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volume defines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies: ‘time and periodisation’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’. From Icelandic communists and Jewish medical students, via Zambian Third Worldism and Albanian nationalism, to the Black/White Atlantic and Australian internationalists, the volume tests the prospects and pitfalls of the approaches it launches.
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