Global biographies : lived history as method /: lived history as method. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Laura Almagor, Haakon Ikonomou, Gunvor Simonsen.
• Editors: Almagor, Laura; Ikonomou, Haakon A; Simonsen, Gunvor
• Contents: 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; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 907.2; History -- Methodology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526161154; 9781526161178
• Related ISBNs: 9781526161161
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