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Global biographies

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Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history – ‘time and periodization’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’ –...
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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.
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Price: £85.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 02 August 2022
ISBN: 9781526161161
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

HISTORY / Historical Geography, History: theory and methods, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General, Biography: historical, political and military, Human geography

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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

Introduction – Laura Almagor, Haakon A. Ikonomou and Gunvor Simonsen
PART I: Time and periodisation
1 Wilsonian moments: Thanassis Aghnides between empire and nation state – Haakon A. Ikonomou
2 Making sense of 1956: experiencing and negotiating the socialist project in Iceland – Rósa Magnúsdóttir
3 Colonial masculinity: monarchy, military, colonialism, fascism and decolonisation – Diana M. Natermann
4 Jewish medical students in Vienna between two world wars – Natalia Aleksiun
PART II: Exceptional normal
5 ‘Just an African radical’? A Zambian at the edge of the third world – Ismay Milford
6 Exceptionally normal (post)Ottomans: how failure shaped the futures of Balkan heroes – Isa Blumi
7 The exceptional normal: Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) and the United States’ imperial expansion – Stefan Eklöf Amirell
8 A fateful beginning: Mehmed Cavid Bey, politics and finance in the global Middle East, 1908–14 – Ozan Ozavci
PART III: Space and scales
9 Scholar, refugee worker, Jew: Koppel S. Pinson (1904–61) – Laura Almagor
10 Transnational agitator and union activist: James W. Ford and the communist push into the Black Atlantic – Holger Weiss
11 A woman with a typewriter: the international career of Dorothea Weger – Benjamin Auberer
12 A white Atlantic life: the money, books and family of Adrian Bentzon – Gunvor Simonsen
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