| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Time and periodization -- 1 Wilsonian moments: Thanassis Aghnides between empire and nation state -- 2 Making sense of 1956: experiencing and negotiating the socialist project in Iceland -- 3 Colonial masculinity: monarchy, military, colonialism, fascism and decolonization -- 4 Jewish medical students in Vienna between two world wars -- Part II. Exceptional normal -- 5 Just an African radical? A Zambian at the edge of the Third World -- 6 Exceptionally normal (post-)Ottomans: how failure shaped the futures of Balkan heroes -- 7 The exceptional normal: Hugh Lenox Scott (1853-1934) and the United States' imperial expansion -- 8 A fateful beginning: Mehmed Cavid Bey, politics and finance in the global Middle East, 1908-14 -- Part III. Space and scales -- 9 Scholar, refugee worker, Jew: Koppel S. Pinson (1904-61) -- 10 Transnational agitator and union activist: James W. Ford and the Communist push into the Black Atlantic -- 11 A woman with a typewriter: the international career of Dorothea Weger -- 12 A white Atlantic life: the money, books, and family of Adrian Bentzon -- Index |
| Summary |
Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history - 'time and periodization', 'exceptional normal' and 'space and scales' - and a broad and critically reflective set of case-studies spanning the globe |
| Analysis |
Colonialism and imperialism |
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biography |
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exceptional normal |
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global history |
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historical methodology |
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life writing |
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mobility |
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space and scale |
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time and periodization |
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transnational history |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 30, 2022) |
| Subject |
History -- Methodology.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
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History -- Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ikonomou, Haakon A., author.
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Simonsen, Gunvor, author.
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| ISBN |
9781526161154 |
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152616115X |
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9781526161178 |
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1526161176 |
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