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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Volker R Berghahn; Simone Lässig |
| ISBN: | 9781845455187 1845455185 |
| OCLC Number: | 184829207 |
| Description: | viii, 272 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: biography in modern history, modern historiography in biography / Simone Lässig -- Biography and the historian: opportunities and constraints / Ian Kershaw -- Dreams and nightmares: writing the biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II / John C.G. Röhl -- Gustav Stresemann: a German Bürger? / Karl Heinrich Pohl -- Women's biographies, men's history? / Angelika Schaser -- Historiography, biography and experience: the case of Hans Rothfels / Jan Eckel -- A historian's life in biographical perspective: John Huizinga / Christoph Strupp -- The heroic ecstasy of drunken elephants: the substrate of nature in Max Weber, a missing link between his life and work /Joachim Radkau -- Generational experience and genocide: a biographical approach to Nazi perpetrators / Michael Wildt -- Criminal biographies and biographies of criminals: understanding the history of war crimes trials and perpetrator "routes to crime" using biographical method / Hilary Earl -- From Himmler's circle of friends to the Lions Club: the career of a provincial Nazi leader / Hartmut Berghoff and Cornelia Rauh-Kühne -- Contexts and contradictions: writing the biography of a Holocaust survivor / Mark Roseman -- The improbable biography: uncommon sources, a moving identity, a plural story? / Willem Frijhoff -- Structuralism and biography: some concluding thoughts on the uncertainties of a historiographical genre / Volker R. Berghahn. |
| Series Title: | Studies in German history, v. 9. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Volker R. Berghahn and Simone Lässig. |
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Abstract:
While bookstore shelves around the world have never ceased to display best-selling life-and-lettersA" 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...
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