{"product_id":"global-biographies-lived-history-as-method-9781526161161","title":"Global Biographies: Lived History as Method","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal biographies \u003c\/i\u003eprovides 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\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003edefines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e‘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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Laura Almagor, Haakon A. Ikonomou and Gunvor Simonsen  \u003cbr\u003ePART I: Time and periodisation  \u003cbr\u003e1 Wilsonian moments: Thanassis Aghnides between empire and nation state – Haakon A. Ikonomou  \u003cbr\u003e2 Making sense of 1956: experiencing and negotiating the socialist project in Iceland – Rósa Magnúsdóttir\u003cbr\u003e3 Colonial masculinity: monarchy, military, colonialism, fascism and decolonisation – Diana M. Natermann  \u003cbr\u003e4 Jewish medical students in Vienna between two world wars – Natalia Aleksiun  \u003cbr\u003ePART II: Exceptional normal\u003cbr\u003e5 ‘Just an African radical’? A Zambian at the edge of the third world – Ismay Milford  \u003cbr\u003e6 Exceptionally normal (post)Ottomans: how failure shaped the futures of Balkan heroes – Isa Blumi\u003cbr\u003e7 The exceptional normal: Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) and the United States’ imperial expansion – Stefan Eklöf Amirell\u003cbr\u003e8 A fateful beginning: Mehmed Cavid Bey, politics and finance in the global Middle East, 1908–14 – Ozan Ozavci\u003cbr\u003ePART III: Space and scales  \u003cbr\u003e9 Scholar, refugee worker, Jew: Koppel S. Pinson (1904–61) – Laura Almagor\u003cbr\u003e10 Transnational agitator and union activist: James W. Ford and the communist push into the Black Atlantic – Holger Weiss  \u003cbr\u003e11 A woman with a typewriter: the international career of Dorothea Weger – Benjamin Auberer\u003cbr\u003e12 A white Atlantic life: the money, books and family of Adrian Bentzon – Gunvor Simonsen\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041026146647,"sku":"9781526161161","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526161161.jpg?v=1750948653","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-biographies-lived-history-as-method-9781526161161","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}