MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 04064cam a22003854a 4500
001 6925205
005 20221130191930.0
008 080418s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008017890
020 $a9781845455187 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a1845455185 (hardback : alk. paper)
024 $a40015976845
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn184829207
035 $a(OCoLC)184829207
035 $a(NNC)6925205
035 $a6925205
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dBTCTA$dBAKER$dYDXCP$dCDX$dOrLoB-B
043 $ae------
050 00 $aD13.5.E85$bB56 2008
082 00 $a943.00072$222
245 00 $aBiography between structure and agency :$bCentral European lives in international historiography /$cedited by Volker R. Berghahn and Simone Lässig.
260 $aNew York :$bBerghahn Books,$c2008.
300 $aviii, 272 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in German history ;$vv. 9
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction : biography in modern history - modern historiography in biography /$rSimone Lassig --$g2.$tBiography and the historian : opportunities and constraints /$rIan Kershaw --$g3.$tDreams and nightmares : writing the biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II /$rJohn C. G. Rohl --$g4.$tGustav Stresemann : a German Burger? /$rKarl Heinrich Pohl --$g5.$tWomen's biographies - men's history? /$rAngelika Schaser --$g6.$tHistoriography, biography, and experience : the case of Hans Rothfels /$rJan Eckel --$g7.$tA historian's life in biographical perspective : Johan Huizinga /$rChristoph Strupp --$g8.$tThe heroic ecstasy of drunken elephants : the substrate of nature in Max Weber - a missing link between his life and work /$rJoachim Radkau --$g9.$tGenerational experience and genocide : a biographical approach to Nazi perpetrators /$rMichael Wildi --$g10.$tCriminal biographies and biographies of criminals : understanding the history of war crimes trials and perpetrator "routes to crime" using biographical method /$rHilary Earl --$g11.$tFrom Himmler's circle of friends to the Lions Club : the career of a provincial Nazi leader /$rHartmut Berghoff and Cornelia Rauh-Kuhne --$g12.$tContexts and contradictions : writing the biography of a Holocaust survivor /$rMark Roseman --$g13.$tThe improbable biography : uncommon sources, a moving identity, a plural story? /$rWillem Frijhoff --$g14.$tStructuralism and biography : some concluding thoughts on the uncertainties of a historiographical genre /$rVolker R. Berghahn.
520 1 $a"While bookstore shelves around the world have never ceased to display best-selling "life-and-letters" biographies in prominent positions, the genre became less popular among academic historians during the Cold War decades. Their main concern then was with political and socioeconomic structures, institutions, and organizations, or - more recently - with the daily lives of ordinary people and small communities. The contributors to this volume - all well known senior historians - offer self-critical reflections on problems they encountered when writing biographies themselves. Some of them also deal with topics specific to Central Europe, such as the challenges of writing about the lives of both victims and perpetrators. Although the volume concentrates on European historiography, its strong methodological and conceptual focus will be of great interest to non-European historians wrestling with the old "structure-versus-agency" question in their own work."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aEurope, Central$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aEuropeans$zEurope, Central$xBiography$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSocial sciences$xBiographical methods.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124004
700 1 $aBerghahn, Volker R.$q(Volker Rolf),$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81097723
700 1 $aLässig, Simone,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96037318
830 0 $aStudies in German history ;$vv. 9.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006032823
852 00 $boff,glx$hD13.5.E85$iB56 2008