Historians -- Biography

Encyclopedia of historians & historical writing

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The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama.Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginn…

Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing

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The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the begin…

In the footsteps of Flora Tristan: a political biography

by Cross, Máire

fromStudies in labour history (Liverpool University Press)

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The book offers a new approach to biography by interlocking the legacy of Flora Tristan (1803-1844) with the life of Jules Puech (1879-1957) through his recovery and loss of her papers crucial for showing her political activism. It is an intergenerational history of feminism, so…

A life beyond the boundaries

by Anderson, Benedict R. O'G

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"An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities. Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Communities has changed the way we think about the reason that people live, die and kill i…

A life beyond the boundaries

by Anderson, Benedict

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Scope and content: "An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities. Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Communities has changed the way we think about the reason that people l…

A life beyond the boundaries

by Anderson, Benedict

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"An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities. Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Communities has changed the way we think about the reason that people live, die and kill i…

A life beyond the boundaries: a memoir

by Anderson, Benedict R. O'G., (Benedict Richard O'Gorman)

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"An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities. Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Communities has changed the way we think about the reason that people live, die and kill i…

A life beyond the boundaries

by Anderson, Benedict

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"An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities. Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Communities has changed the way we think about the reason that people live, die and kill i…

A life beyond boundaries

by Anderson, Benedict R. O'G., (Benedict Richard O'Gorman)

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"An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities. Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Communities has changed the way we think about the reason that people live, die and kill i…

Anna Komnene: the life and work of a medieval historian

by Neville, Leonora Alice

fromOnassis series in Hellenic culture

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Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First Crusade. Anna Komnene: the …

George Kennan: a study of character

by Lukacs, John

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A man of impressive mental powers, of extraordinary intellectual range, and of exceptional integrity, George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) was an adviser to presidents and secretaries of state, with a decisive role in the history of this country (and of the entire world) for a few cr…

Jacob Burckhardt and the crisis of modernity

by Hinde, John Roderick

fromMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas

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"Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity, the first major study in English dedicated entirely to Burckhardt, offers a compelling and timely interpretative and synthetic analysis of Burckhardt's unique challenge to the values and assumptions of modern society, placing his wo…

Interesting Times: a Twentieth-Century Life

by Hobsbawm, Eric, Hobsbawm, E. J.

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Annotation Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, "I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illuminati…