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UNINA9910322658603321 |
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Fox Karen |
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Titolo |
'True biographies of nations?' : the cultural journeys of dictionaries of national biography / / edited by Karen Fox |
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ANU Press, 2019 |
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Acton, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University Press, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biography |
Great Britain Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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1. The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of Biography / Karen Fox PART I: THE DIGITAL AGE. 2. Individual Lives and National Truths: Locating Biographies within a National Encyclopedia / Jock Phillips 3. The Irish World: How to Revise a Long Standing Dictionary Project / Turlough O Riordan 4. What is National Biography For? Dictionaries and Digital History / Philip Carter 5. Using Lives: The Australian Dictionary of Biography and Its Related Corpora / Melanie Nolan PART II: THE REPRESENTATIONAL CHALLENGE. 6. Why Gender Matters: Fostering Diversity in the American National Biography with Lessons Learned from Notable American Women / Susan Ware 7. Women and the Biographies of Nations: The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women / Elizabeth Ewan 8. An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography / Shino Konishi 9. Writing the Nation in Two Languages: The Dictionary of Welsh Biography / Dafydd Johnston PART III: THE TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSION. 10. Writing a Dictionary of World Biography / Barry Jones 11. British National Biography and Global British Lives: From the DNB to the ODNB and Beyond? / David Cannadine 12. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography and the Irish Diaspora / David A. Wilson. |
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Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners |
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from around the English‑speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects’ recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large‑scale collaborative biographical dictionary research. |
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UNISA996213956003316 |
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Harris J. William <1946-> |
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The making of the American South : a short history, 1500-1877 / / J. William Harris |
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Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell, , [2006] |
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©2006 |
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1-281-21361-6 |
9786611213619 |
0-470-70085-8 |
0-470-77333-2 |
1-4051-5454-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Problems in American history |
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Economic history |
Southern States History 1865-1877 |
Southern States History 16th century |
Southern States History 1775-1865 |
Southern States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-277) and index. |
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Before the South -- Colonials become Americans -- Southern power in the new nation -- An American slave society -- The politics of slavery and the road to secession -- Civil wars -- The reconstruction of the South and the construction of Southern history. |
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This concise overview of the history and historiography of the American South puts the major problems and issues of that region into clear, accessible prose. It focuses on the earliest days of the Old South, up to the Reconstruction, concentrating on the topics that are of most concern to historians. |
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