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Clio's Lives : Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ANU Lives Series in Biography SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (330 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760461447
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Clio's LivesDDC classification:
  • 970.016
LOC classification:
  • E123 .C556 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Autobiographies of Historians -- 2. Writing History/Writing about Yourself: What's the Difference? -- 3. Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: Three Autobiographies of Childhood and Coming of Age -- 4. The Female Gaze: Australian Women Historians' Autobiographies -- Nation-Defining Authors -- 5. 'A gigantic confession of life': Autobiography, 'National Awakening' and the Invention of Manning Clark -- 6. Ceci n'est pas Ramsay Cook: A Biographical Reconnaissance -- Discipline-Defining Authors -- 7. Intersecting and Contrasting Lives: G.M. Trevelyan and Lytton Strachey -- 8. An Ingrained Activist: The Early Years of Raphael Samuel -- 9. Pursuing the Antipodean: Bernard Smith, Identity and History -- Collective Biography -- 10. Australian Historians Networking, 1914-1973 -- 11. Country and Kin Calling? Keith Hancock, the National Dictiona -- 12. Imperial Women: Collective Biography, Gender and Yale‑trained Historians -- 13. Concluding Reflections -- Index.
Summary: Including contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and North America, this collection explores diverse approaches to writing the lives of historians and ways of assessing the importance of doing so.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Autobiographies of Historians -- 2. Writing History/Writing about Yourself: What's the Difference? -- 3. Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: Three Autobiographies of Childhood and Coming of Age -- 4. The Female Gaze: Australian Women Historians' Autobiographies -- Nation-Defining Authors -- 5. 'A gigantic confession of life': Autobiography, 'National Awakening' and the Invention of Manning Clark -- 6. Ceci n'est pas Ramsay Cook: A Biographical Reconnaissance -- Discipline-Defining Authors -- 7. Intersecting and Contrasting Lives: G.M. Trevelyan and Lytton Strachey -- 8. An Ingrained Activist: The Early Years of Raphael Samuel -- 9. Pursuing the Antipodean: Bernard Smith, Identity and History -- Collective Biography -- 10. Australian Historians Networking, 1914-1973 -- 11. Country and Kin Calling? Keith Hancock, the National Dictiona -- 12. Imperial Women: Collective Biography, Gender and Yale‑trained Historians -- 13. Concluding Reflections -- Index.

Including contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and North America, this collection explores diverse approaches to writing the lives of historians and ways of assessing the importance of doing so.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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