Biography Between Structure and Agency : : Central European Lives in International Historiography /

Biography Between Structure and Agency : : Central European Lives in International Historiography / / ed. by Volker Berghahn, Simone Lässig.

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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, inst...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Berghahn, Volker R.,
Berghoff, Hartmut,
Earl, Hilary,
Eckel, Jan,
Frijhoff, Willem,
Kershaw, Ian,
Lässig, Simone,
Pohl, Karl Heinrich,
Radkau, Joachim,
Rauh-Kühne, Cornelia,
Roseman, Mark,
Röhl, John C.G.,
Schaser, Angelika,
Strupp, Christoph,
Wildt, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Berghahn, Volker,
Lässig, Simone,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studies in German History ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Biography in Modern History— Modern Historiography in Biography
  • Chapter 2 BIOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORIAN Opportunities and Constraints
  • Chapter 3 DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES Writing the Biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Chapter 4 GUSTAV STRESEMANN: A GERMAN BÜRGER?
  • Chapter 5 WOMEN’S BIOGRAPHIES—MEN’S HISTORY?
  • Chapter 6 HISTORIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, AND EXPERIENCE The Case of Hans Rothfels
  • Chapter 7 A HISTORIAN’S LIFE IN BIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE: JOHAN HUIZINGA
  • Chapter 8 THE HEROIC ECSTASY OF DRUNKEN ELEPHANTS Th e Substrate of Nature in Max Weber— A Missing Link between His Life and Work
  • Chapter 9 GENERATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND GENOCIDE A Biographical Approach to Nazi Perpetrators
  • Chapter 10 CRIMINAL BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF CRIMINALS Understanding the History of War Crimes Trials and Perpetrator “Routes to Crime” using Biographical Method
  • Chapter 11 FROM HIMMLER’S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS TO THE LIONS CLUB Th e Career of a Provincial Nazi Leader
  • Chapter 12 CONTEXTS AND CONTRADICTIONS Writing the Biography of a Holocaust Survivor
  • Chapter 13 THE IMPROBABLE BIOGRAPHY Uncommon Sources, a Moving Identity, a Plural Story?
  • Chapter 14 STRUCTURALISM AND BIOGRAPHY Some Concluding Thoughts on the Uncertainties of a Historiographical Genre
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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