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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821036903321

Titolo

How to be a historian : Scholarly personae in historical studies, 1800–2000 / / edited by Herman Paul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-5261-3282-6

1-5261-4673-8

1-5261-3281-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 222 pages)

Collana

Manchester scholarship online

Disciplina

907.2

Soggetti

Historians

Social history

Historiography - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Scholarly personae : what they are and why they matter / Herman Paul -- The contested persona of the historian : on the origins of a permanent conflict / Ian Hunter -- Ranke vs Schlosser : pairs of personae in nineteenth-century German historiography / Herman Paul -- Fixing genius : the Romantic man of letters in the university era / Travis E. Ross -- Generational continuities and composite personae : French historiography from the 1870s to the 1950s / Camille Creyghton -- Pasha and his historic harem : Edward A. Freeman, Edith Thompson and the gendered personae of late-Victorian historians / Elise Garritzen -- Interpretative and investigative : the emergence and characteristics of modern scholarly personae in China, 1900-30 / Q. Edward Wang -- Coalescence and conflict : historians and their personae in the Portuguese New State / António da Silva Rêgo -- The emergence of the English Marxist historian's scholarly persona : the English Revolution debate of 1940-41 / Sina Talachian -- Of communism, compromise and Central Europe : the scholarly persona



under authoritarianism / Monika Baár -- What is an African historian? Negotiating scholarly personae in UNESCO's General history of Africa / Larissa Schulte Nordholt -- The finitude of personae : Bryce Lyon, François Louis Ganshof and the biography of Pirenne / Henning Trüper.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of 'scholarly personae', it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions that they consider necessary for studying the past, yet often disagree about what virtues, skills, or competencies are most important. More specifically, the volume explains why models of virtue known as 'personae' have always been contested, yet also can prove remarkably stable, especially with regard to their race, class, and gender assumptions. Covering historical studies across Europe, North America, Africa, and East Asia, How to be a historian will appeal not only to historians of historiography, but to all historians who occasionally wonder: What kind of a historian do I want to be?