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1 online resource (239 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: The biographical turn: Biography as critical method in the humanities and in society; Setting the stage: theoretical implications of a biographical approach; Elaborating the biographical turn; Biography as a critical methodology in the humanities; Notes; Section 1: The biographical turn in the humanities; Chapter 2: Biography as corrective; Historians turning to biography; Biographical mission; Challenging misrepresentations; Higher status; Notes |
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Chapter 3: The plurality of the past: Historical time and the rediscovery of biographyHistorical and individual time; Historical plurality; Biography and social interstices; Notes; Chapter 4: The life is never over: Biography as a microhistorical approach; The methods of microhistory; Is small beautiful?; The individual as a research target; The gap in the narrative; Contextualisation; The singularisation of history; Biography as microhistorical approach; Notes; Chapter 5: Personalised history: On biofiction, source criticism and the critical value of biography |
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Biography Studies and the subjective element in historiographyHistory as ongoing process; Overcoming limited access to sources; The tragedy of the distinction between fiction and non-fiction; Source criticism and the historian as source; Notes; Chapter 6: The life effect: Literature studies and the biographical perspective; Notes; Chapter 7: Biography as a concept of thought: On the premises of biographical research and narrative; Biography Studies as a web of problems; Biography as storytelling; Biography as a concept of thought; Notes |
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Section 2: The biographical turn in fields of knowledgeChapter 8: Biographies as multipliers: The First World War as turning point in the lives of modernist artists; Turning points; Becoming an art theorist; Unique or representative; History in the head; Notes; Chapter 9: 'Honest politics': A biographical perspective on economic expertise as a political style; Value-free economics in the post-war world; Expertise politics in the Netherlands: reflections on style and substance; Economic expertise and the end of ideology; Economics and biography; Conclusion; Notes |
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Chapter 10: Rediscovering agency in the Atlantic: A biographical approach linking entrepreneurial spirit and overseas companiesBiography and microhistory in the Atlantic; Social capital and the entrepreneurial spirit in the Atlantic world; Agency in the Atlantic world; Notes; Chapter 11: Building bridges to past centuries: Religion and empathy in early modern biography; Empathy and historical understanding; Interpretation: interaction between perspectives; Reyner van Dorth: text in context; Agency: the connection between mentality and behaviour; Notes |
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Chapter 12: Palatable and unpalatable leaders: Apartheid and post-Apartheid Afrikaner biography |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
De Haan, Binne
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Harmsma, Jonne
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| ISBN |
9781315469560 |
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1315469561 |
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