Jaume Aurell

Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies

From Documentation to Intervention

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Produktbeschreibung

This book approaches historians' autobiographies, supplying biographical information and theoretical perspectives of the more outstanding historians such as Vico, Gibbon, Adams, Collingwood, Croce, Langer, Schlesinger, Braudel, Hobsbawm, Duby, Ariès, Conway, Steedman, Natalie Davis, Spiegel, Rosenstone, John Elliot and Geoff Eley. It provides a new history of historiography, using historians' autobiographies as a source.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138934405
• ISBN-10: 1138934402
• Artikelnr.: 42519526

Autorenporträt

Jaume Aurell is Associate Professor at the Department of History at the University of Navarra (Spain). He is the author of Authoring the Past. History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia (Chicago, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

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.