دانلود کتاب Biography: An Historiography

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Cover\nEndorsement Page\nHalf Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedication\nTable of Contents\nList of figures\nAcknowledgements\nChapter 1: Introduction: ‘It’s Just a Biography’: historicising historians’ biographical debates\n ‘It’s just a biography’: Trevelyan’s formula\n Disciplinary diversity: historian’s biography\n Disciplinary diversity: putting historians debates into a narrative of biography\n Historicising historians’ biographical debates\n Conclusion: concentrating on historians’ biographical debates\n Notes\n Further reading\nChapter 2: Victorians debate over heroism: The role of the significant individual in history\n Victorian historians disagreeing over biography: ‘Poets without music’ and ‘perfect owls of Minerva for knowledge’?\n Carlyle’s heroic response to the German and British Romantic movements\n Spencer’s sociological critique of the ‘Great Men’ Approach\n Interactionalists or third wavers\n Historians debate biography over the biographical methods taught in universities\n Conclusion: Carlyle provokes debate among professionalising biographers and historians\n Notes\n Further reading\nChapter 3: Post-victorian debates over artistic and scientific approaches to biography\n Scientific or artful biography? Roger Fry and John Morley and post-Victorian debates\n Modernist and Bloomsbury literary critique of historians’ biographical fetish for facts\n Some historians put the case for a biographical ‘fetishisation of fact’\n Biographers navigate between too much and too little empiricism\n Conclusion: historians navigating around Bloomsbury and scientific biography\n Notes\n Further reading\nChapter 4: Historians and the problem of other minds in biography\n Disinclined and disengaged over the psychology debate? Roland H. Bainton takes on Erik Erikson\n Psychobiographers try to take hold of biography?\n Postwar prescriptions of psychobiography for historians\n Historians finally respond: heated debate over psychobiography in the 1970s and 1980s\n Historians writing biography and the wider issue of other minds\n Conclusion: debate over the problem of other minds; inner and social lives?\n Notes\n Further reading\nChapter 5: Cold War debates over individuals in history: Counterfactuals, contingency and causation in biography\n Cold War Debate between Isaiah Berlin and Issac Deutscher\n Myth of a single Cold War biographical debate: contingency, counterfactuals and causation\n E. P. Thompson defends non-teleological causation\n Conclusion: the biographical debates over human agency, structure and the myths of one\n Notes\n Further reading\nChapter 6: Postwar debates over atomising lives\n A peculiar biographical club and the debate over prosopography\n Eighteenth-century political history becomes a battleground of biographical approaches\n Pursuit of the individual in prosopography: medievalists’ prosopographical methods and the move towards representative lives\n A halfway house: collective biography\n Conclusion: the debate’s shared legacy\n Notes\n Further reading\nChapter 7: Late twentieth-century debate over microhistory and the singularization of history\n Trivial and significant microbiography?\n Carlo Ginzburg’s attack on Annalistes, armed with a microscope\n Linda Colley’s holding a grain of sand in her hand\n Conclusion\n Notes\n Further reading\nChapter 8: Current debates about life writing and historians’ egohistoire\n Historian’s egohistoire as historiographical intervention: subjectivity and its critique?\n Historians consider clusters, codes and canons in life writing: the breakdown of the symbolic white male hero\n Historians’ egohistoire and its enemies\n Historians’ egohistoire of particular historiographical significance?\n Conclusion: the kaleidoscope of life writing\n Notes\n Further reading\nChapter 9: Conclusion: Trevelyan’s empiricism and historians’ biographical practices\n The biography of the debate: the life and death of debates\n Empiricism as the motor to historians’ practices amid debates over biography\n Narrating the debates: biographical historiography biographically\n Conclusion\n Notes\nIndex