Becoming historians

• Other Authors: Banner, James M., 1935-, Gillis, John R.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009.
• Subjects: Historians > Biography.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.; HISTORY > Historiography.; Historians.; Electronic books.; Biography.
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"In this unique collection, the memoirs of eleven historians provide a fascinating portrait of a formative generation of scholars. Born around the time of World War II, these influential historians came of age just before the upheavals of the 1960s and '70s and helped to transform both the...

Table of Contents:

• Paul Robinson
• Temma Kaplan
• Franklin W. Knight
• John R. Gillis
• Maureen Murphy Nutting
• David A. Hollinger
• Linda Gordon
• Dwight T. Pitcaithley
• Joan Wallach Scott
• Rhys Isaac
• James M. Banner, Jr.
• Finding critical history /
• Taking the long way from Euterpe to Clio /
• History constructs a historian /
• Church people and others /
• Choices /
• Detours /
• A Caribbean quest for the muse of history /
• My way /
• Becoming a gay historian /
• Toward ethnographic history: figures in the landscape, action in the texts /
• Historian, improvised /