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Book Synopsis"Roberts is certainly successful in conveying a sense of the rich diversity of biographical research. This is a book based upon a formidably wide-ranging bibliography together with his own, by no means insignificant, contributions to the fieldâ[the]âreader will be left in no doubt as to the central importance of biographical research and of its legitimate position within the social sciences" - David Morgan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Manchester University (former President, British Sociological Association), Auto/Biography, a BSA Study Group journal, 2002.
"Brian Robertsâ book is a highly accessible introduction to biographical methodâThe author deftly and confidently addresses the available work in a variety of disciplines ranging from education through oral history, feminism to memoryâ I warmly recommend this book to any historian interested in biography and what its study can tell them about what they doâ. - Alun Munslow, Professor of History, Staffordshire Un
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'Anyone who set out to encompass the whole of biographical research in around 200 pages faces a formidable task...Roberts is certainly successful in conveying a sense of the rich diversity of biographical research. This is a book based upon a formidably wide-ranging bibliography together with his own, by no means insignificant, contributions to the field...[the]...reader will be left in no doubt as to the central importance of biographical research and of its legitimate position within the social sciences'. - David Morgan 20020101
Table of Contents
Series editor's foreword
Introduction
biographical research
Uses of biographical research
The life history
Autobiography and biography
Auto/biography and sociology
Oral history
The narrative analysis of lives
Memory and autobiography
Ethnography and biographical research
Conclusion
References
Index.
