Historians' autobiographies as historiographical inquiry : a global perspective /
"This Element analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. Discussion includes twenty autobiographies: Lucian of Samosata's memories in antiquity; Vico's, Gibbon's and Adams' intellectual self-...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice.
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| Summary: | "This Element analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. Discussion includes twenty autobiographies: Lucian of Samosata's memories in antiquity; Vico's, Gibbon's and Adams' intellectual self-accounting in modernity; autobiographical revelations and social activism of twentieth-century women historians such as Steedman, Conway and Gerda Lerner; classical Chinese and Islamic traditions through the autobiographies of Sima Quian and Ibn Khaldun; the perplexities inherent in the modernisation of Japan (Fukuzama Yukichi), China (Gu Jiegang), India (Nirad Chaudhuri) and Egypt (Taha Hussein); and traumatic postcolonial experiences in Africa (Bethwell Ogot), Latin America (Carlos Eire) and Southeast Asia (Wang Gungwu). This Element proposes a literary and historical approach to these autobiographies, emphasising its historiographical dimension and value"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 75 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781009539418 1009539418 9781009396905 1009396900 |