Description
Book SynopsisGlobal biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volume
defines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies:
‘time and periodisation’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’. From Icelandic communists and Jewish medical students, via Zambian Third Worldism and Albanian nationalism, to the Black/White Atlantic and Australian internationalists, the volume tests the prospects and pitfalls of the approaches it launches.
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Laura Almagor, Haakon A. Ikonomou and Gunvor Simonsen
PART I: Time and periodisation
1 Wilsonian moments: Thanassis Aghnides between empire and nation state – Haakon A. Ikonomou
2 Making sense of 1956: experiencing and negotiating the socialist project in Iceland – Rósa Magnúsdóttir
3 Colonial masculinity: monarchy, military, colonialism, fascism and decolonisation – Diana M. Natermann
4 Jewish medical students in Vienna between two world wars – Natalia Aleksiun
PART II: Exceptional normal
5 ‘Just an African radical’? A Zambian at the edge of the third world – Ismay Milford
6 Exceptionally normal (post)Ottomans: how failure shaped the futures of Balkan heroes – Isa Blumi
7 The exceptional normal: Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) and the United States’ imperial expansion – Stefan Eklöf Amirell
8 A fateful beginning: Mehmed Cavid Bey, politics and finance in the global Middle East, 1908–14 – Ozan Ozavci
PART III: Space and scales
9 Scholar, refugee worker, Jew: Koppel S. Pinson (1904–61) – Laura Almagor
10 Transnational agitator and union activist: James W. Ford and the communist push into the Black Atlantic – Holger Weiss
11 A woman with a typewriter: the international career of Dorothea Weger – Benjamin Auberer
12 A white Atlantic life: the money, books and family of Adrian Bentzon – Gunvor Simonsen
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