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Clio's lives : biographies and autobiographies of historians / / edited by Doug Munro and John G. Reid
| Clio's lives : biographies and autobiographies of historians / / edited by Doug Munro and John G. Reid |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (330 pages) |
| Disciplina | 970.016 |
| Soggetto topico | Historians - America |
| ISBN | 1-76046-144-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction / Doug Munro and John G. Reid -- Autobiographies of Historians. 2. Writing history/writing about yourself: what's the difference? / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- 3. Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: three autobiographies of childhood and coming of age / Doug Munro and Geoffrey Gray -- 4. The female gaze: Australian women historians' autobiographies / Ann Moyal -- Nation-Defining Authors. 5. 'A gigantic confession of life': autobiography, 'national awakening' and the invention of Manning Clark / Mark McKenna -- 6. Ceci n'est pas Ramsay Cook: a biographical reconnaissance / Donald Wright -- Discipline-defining authors. 7. Intersecting and contrasting lives: G. M. Trevelyan and Lytton Strachey / Alastair MacLachlan -- 8. An ingrained activist: the early years of Raphael Samuel / Sophie Scott-Brown -- 9. Pursuing the antipodean: Bernard Smith, identity and history / Sheridan Palmer -- Collective Biography. 10. Australian historians networking, 1914-1973 / Geoffrey Bolton -- 11. Country and kin calling? Keith Hancock, the National Dictionary Collaboration, and the promotion of life writing in Australia / Melanie Nolan -- 12. Imperial women: collective biography, gender and Yale-trained historians / John G. Reid -- 13. Concluding reflections / Barbara Caine. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910245737303321 |
| Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fernández de Oviedo's chronicle of America [[electronic resource] ] : a new history for a New World / / Kathleen Ann Myers ; translations by Nina M. Scott
| Fernández de Oviedo's chronicle of America [[electronic resource] ] : a new history for a New World / / Kathleen Ann Myers ; translations by Nina M. Scott |
| Autore | Myers Kathleen Ann |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
| Disciplina | 970.01/6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ScottNina M
Fernández de OviedoGonzalo <1478-1557.> |
| Soggetto topico |
Historians - America
Historians - Spain Explorers - America Explorers - Spain |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-292-79502-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451890403321 |
Myers Kathleen Ann
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| Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fernández de Oviedo's chronicle of America [[electronic resource] ] : a new history for a New World / / Kathleen Ann Myers ; translations by Nina M. Scott
| Fernández de Oviedo's chronicle of America [[electronic resource] ] : a new history for a New World / / Kathleen Ann Myers ; translations by Nina M. Scott |
| Autore | Myers Kathleen Ann |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
| Disciplina | 970.01/6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ScottNina M
Fernández de OviedoGonzalo <1478-1557.> |
| Soggetto topico |
Historians - America
Historians - Spain Explorers - America Explorers - Spain |
| ISBN | 0-292-79502-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: NEW WORLD, NEW HISTORY AND THE WRITING OF AMERICA -- One. BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The Life and Writings of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés -- Two. A READER’S GUIDE TO A NEW WORLD HISTORY (Proemio, bk. 1) -- Three. THE HISTORIAN AS ACTOR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHER Tierra Firme 1514 (bk. 29, chap. 6) -- Four. EYEWITNESS TO AMERICA’S WONDERS Illustrating a Natural History of the Indies (bk. 7, chap. 14) -- Five. AMAZON WOMEN AND NEW WORLD REALITIES Documenting an Expanding World (bk. 6, chap. 33) -- Six. CORTÉS AND THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO Truth and Multiple Testimonies (bk. 33, chap. 54) -- Seven. NATIVE AMERICANS IN OVIEDO’S HISTORY (bk. 29, chap. 26) -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A: Chronology of Fernández de Oviedo’s Life and Works -- APPENDIX B: Map of Hispaniola and Tierra Firme, ca. 1540 -- APPENDIX C: Translations of passages from Fernández de Oviedo’s Historia general y natural de las Indias -- APPENDIX D: Table. Historia general y natural Manuscript Locations and Illustrations/Woodcuts -- APPENDIX E: Illlustrations -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778108403321 |
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Myers Kathleen Ann
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| Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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