How to be a historian : scholarly personae in historical studies, 1800-2000 /
What is unique about this volume is that is explores the history of historical studies through the prism of 'scholarly personae' (models of virtue, embodying how to be a historian). It offers a stimulating new perspective on the unity, or disunity, of historical scholarship as it existed i...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : scholarly personae : what they are and why they matter / Herman Paul
- 1. The contested persona of the historian : on the origins of a permanent conflict / Ian Hunter
- 2. Ranke vs Schlosser : pairs of personae in nineteenth-century German historiography / Herman Paul
- 3. Fixing genius : the Romantic man of letters in the university era / Travis E. Ross
- 4. Generational continuities and composite personae : French historiography from the 1870s to the 1950s / Camille Creyghton
- 5. Pasha and his historic harem : Edward A. Freeman, Edith Thompson, and the gendered personae of late-Victorian historians / Elise Garritzen
- 6. Interpretive and investigative : the emergence and characteristics of modern scholarly personae in China, 1900-30 / Q. Edward Wang
- 7. Coalescence and conflict : historians and their personae in the Portuguese New State / António da Silva Rêgo
- 8. The emergence of the English Marxist historian's persona : the English Revolution debate of 1940-41 / Sina Talachian
- 9. Of communism, compromise and Central Europe : the scholarly persona under authoritarianism / Monika Baár
- 10. What is an African historian? Negotiating scholarly personae in UNESCO's General History of Africa / Larissa Schulte Nordholt
- 11. The finitude of personae : Bryce Lyon, François Louis Ganshof, and the biography of Pirenne / Henning Trüper.