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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.
Print Book, English, 2005
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 339 pages ; 18 cm
9780226675435, 0226675432
1049062590
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