{"product_id":"biography-between-structure-and-agency-central-european-lives-in-international-historiography-9781845455187","title":"Biography Between Structure and Agency: Central","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tWhile bookstore shelves around the world have never ceased to display best-selling “life-and-letters” biographies in prominent positions, the genre became less popular among academic historians during the Cold War decades. Their main concern then was with political and socioeconomic structures, institutions, and organizations, or—more recently—with the daily lives of ordinary people and small communities. The contributors to this volume—all well known senior historians—offer self-critical reflections on problems they encountered when writing biographies themselves. Some of them also deal with topics specific to Central Europe, such as the challenges of writing about the lives of both victims and perpetrators. Although the volume concentrates on European historiography, its strong methodological and conceptual focus will be of great interest to non-European historians wrestling with the old “structure-versus-agency” question in their own work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e Volker R. Berghahn, Hartmut Berghoff, Hilary Earl, Jan Eckel, Willem Frijhoff, Ian Kershaw, Simone Lässig, Karl Heinrich Pohl, John C. G. Röhl, Angelika Schaser, Joachim Radkau, Cornelia Rauh-Kühne, Mark Roseman, Christoph Strupp and Michael Wildt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eIntroduction: Biography in Modern History—Modern Historiography in Biography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSimone Lässig\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eBiography and the Historian: Opportunities and Constraints\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eIan Kershaw\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eDreams and Nightmares: Writing the Biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn C.G. Röhl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eGustav Stresemann: A German Bürger?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKarl Heinrich Pohl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eWomen’s Biographies—Men’s History?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAngelika Schaser\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eHistoriography, Biography, and Experience: The Case of Hans Rothfels\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJan Eckel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Historian’s Life in Biographical Perspective: Johan Huizinga\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristoph Strupp\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Heroic Ecstasy of Drunken Elephants: The Substrate of Nature in Max Weber—A Missing Link between his Life and Work\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJoachim Radkau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eGenerational Experience and Genocide: A Biographical Approach to Nazi Perpetrators\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Wildt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eCriminal Biographies and Biographies of Criminals: Understanding the History of War Crimes Trials and\u003cbr\u003e \tPerpetrator “Routes to Crime” Using Biographical Method\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHilary Earl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom Himmler’s Circle of Friends to the Lions Club: The Career of a Provincial Nazi Leader\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHartmut Berghoff and Cornelia Rauh-Kühne\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003eContexts and Contradictions: Writing the Biography of a Holocaust Survivor\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMark Roseman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Improbable Biography: Uncommon Sources, a Moving Identity, a Plural Story?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWillem Frijhoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14. \u003c\/strong\u003eStructuralism and Biography: Some Concluding Thoughts on the Uncertainties of a Historiographical Genre\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVolker R. 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