Global biographies: Lived history as method

Laura Almagor* (Editor), Haakon Andreas Ikonomou (Editor), Gunvor Simonsen (Editor)

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Abstract

Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volume defines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies: 'time and periodisation', 'exceptional normal' and 'space and scales'. From Icelandic communists and Jewish medical students, via Zambian Third Worldism and Albanian nationalism, to the Black/White Atlantic and Australian internationalists, the volume tests the prospects and pitfalls of the approaches it launches.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherManchester University Press
Number of pages296
ISBN (Print)9781526161161
ISBN (Electronic)9781526161154
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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