دانلود کتاب The Biographical Turn: Lives in History

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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
Chapter 3: The plurality of the past: Historical time and the rediscovery of biography
Historical 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
Biography Studies and the subjective element in historiography
History 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
Section 2: The biographical turn in fields of knowledge
Chapter 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
Chapter 10: Rediscovering agency in the Atlantic: A biographical approach linking entrepreneurial spirit and overseas companies
Biography 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
Chapter 12: Palatable and unpalatable leaders: Apartheid and post-Apartheid Afrikaner biography
A nation adrift
A narrative of nationalist heroes
History and biography
New heroes, new histories
The biographical turn
Notes
Section 3: The biographical turn in academia and society
Chapter 13: Biography is not a selfie: Authorisation as the creeping transition from autobiography to biography
Notes
Chapter 14: What are we turning from? Research and ideology in biography and life writing
The voice of the public – what Life Writing and biography researchers actually read
Life Writing and biography: the theoretical echo boom
Notes
Chapter 15: Liberation from low dark space: Biography beside and beyond the academy
Notes
Chapter 16: From academic historian to popular biographer: Musings on the practical poetics of biography
Notes
Bibliography
Index