What is unique about this volume is that is explores the history of historical studies through the prism of 'scholarly personae' (models of virtue, embodying how to be a historian). It offers a stimulating new perspective on the unity, or disunity, of historical scholarship as it existed in nineteenth- and twentieth-century.
This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of 'scholarly personae', it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions that they consider necessary for studying the past, yet often disagree about what virtues, skills, or competencies are most important. More specifically, the volume explains why models of virtue known as 'personae' have always been contested, yet also can prove remarkably stable, especially with regard to their race, class, and gender assumptions. Covering historical studies across Europe, North America, Africa, and East Asia, How to be a historian will appeal not only to historians of historiography, but to all historians who occasionally wonder: What kind of a historian do I want to be?
Edited by:
Herman Paul
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781526156037
ISBN 10: 1526156032
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 03 August 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Notes on contributors Introduction. Scholarly personae: what they are and why they matter – Herman Paul 1 The contested persona of the historian: on the origins of a permanent conflict – Ian Hunter 2 Ranke vs Schlosser: pairs of personae in nineteenth-century German historiography – Herman Paul 3 Fixing genius: the Romantic man of letters in the university era – Travis E. Ross 4 Generational continuities and composite personae: French historiography from the 1870s to the 1950s – Camille Creyghton 5 Pasha and his historic harem: Edward A. Freeman, Edith Thompson and the gendered personae of late-Victorian historians – Elise Garritzen 6 Interpretative and investigative: the emergence and characteristics of modern scholarly personae in China, 1900–30 – Q. Edward Wang 7 Coalescence and conflict: historians and their personae in the Portuguese New State – António da Silva Rêgo 8 The emergence of the English Marxist historian’s scholarly persona: the English Revolution debate of 1940–41 – Sina Talachian 9 Of communism, compromise and Central Europe: the scholarly persona under authoritarianism – Monika Baár 10 What is an African historian? Negotiating scholarly personae in UNESCO’s General History of Africa – Larissa Schulte Nordholt 11 The finitude of personae: Bryce Lyon, François Louis Ganshof and the biography of Pirenne – Henning Trüper Index -- .
Herman Paul is Professor of the History of the Humanities at Leiden University
Reviews for How to be a Historian: Scholarly Personae in Historical Studies, 1800–2000
'Historians’ identities form the subject matter of this geographically wide-ranging, well-researched and theoretically framed collection of essays.' R. C. Richardson, University of Winchester, Times Higher Education, July 2019 -- .
