Global biographies : lived history as method / edited by Laura Almagor, Haakon A. Ikonomou and Gunvor Simonsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Almagor, Laura, editor.

Ikonomou, Haakon A., editor.

Simonsen, Gunvor, editor.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Methodology.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 270 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Laura Almagor is a Lecturer in Twentieth Century European History at the University of Sheffield.

Haakon Ikonomou is a Gerda Henkel Fellow at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Gunvor Simonsen is Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Summary:

This publication offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history - 'time and periodization', 'exceptional normal' and 'space and scales' - and a broad and critically reflective set of case-studies spanning the globe.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I. Time and periodization

1 Wilsonian moments: Thanassis Aghnides between empire and nation state

2 Making sense of 1956: experiencing and negotiating the socialist project in Iceland

3 Colonial masculinity: monarchy, military, colonialism, fascism and decolonization

4 Jewish medical students in Vienna between two world wars

Part II. Exceptional normal

5 Just an African radical? A Zambian at the edge of the Third World

6 Exceptionally normal (post-)Ottomans: how failure shaped the futures of Balkan heroes

7 The exceptional normal: Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) and the United States’ imperial expansion

8 A fateful beginning: Mehmed Cavid Bey, politics and finance in the global Middle East, 1908–14

Part III. Space and scales

9 Scholar, refugee worker, Jew: Koppel S. Pinson (1904–61)

10 Transnational agitator and union activist: James W. Ford and the Communist push into the Black Atlantic

11 A woman with a typewriter: the international career of Dorothea Weger

12 A white Atlantic life: the money, books, and family of Adrian Bentzon

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Almagor, Laura Global Biographies

ISBN:

9781526172891

1526172895

9781526161154

152616115X

9781526161178

1526161176

OCLC:

1330894113