History, historians, and autobiography
Historians' autobiographies, Popkin shows, reveal how scholars arrive at their vocations, the difficulties of writing about modern professional life, and the ways in which personal stories can add to our understanding of historical events such as war, political movements, and the traumas of the Holocaust.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 339 pages ; 18 cm
9780226675435, 0226675432
1049062590
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