Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft

The historian as biographer must resolve questions that reflect the dual challenge of telling history and telling lives: How does the biographer sort out the individual's role within the larger historical context? How do biographical studies relate to other forms of history? Should historians use different approaches to biography, depending on the cultures of their subjects? What are the appropriate primary sources and techniques that scholars should...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803210663
• ISBN13: 9780803210660
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"