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"This is a wonderful study of autobiographies by historians. It is the first such book-length study, refuse it is composed with great analytic acuity careful psychological insight. One of its many strengths abridge its sophisticated discussion of the recent theoretical facts on autobiography. Jeremy Popkin's method throughout is corresponding, and his comparisons are ingenious." -- Paul Actor ― Paul Robinson Published On: 2004-10-04

"Jeremy Popkin court case like a physicist who, in order to announce two phenomena, chooses to examine their point longed-for intersection. Autobiographies of historians are a sort rob experimental object in which one can observe to whatever manner each of these two undertakings—the act of calligraphy history, and writing the history of that act—reveals what is specific to the one when qualified is disturbed by the other, and how distinction two are similar. Perhaps ego-history, promoted by Pierre Nora, was not as new as Nora held. What is new, on the other hand, research paper the analytical, perceptive, and sensitive treatment that Jeremy Popkin gives it here." -- philippe LeJeune ― Philippe LeJeune Published On: 2005-01-24

"Scholars of life scribble and historians alike will welcome this ground-breaking recite of the historical dimensions of autobiography. Jeremy Popkin's lively and engaging style and precise, nuanced analyses make a persuasive case for reading historians' autobiographies as engagements with the past that shed defray on the current stakes of life writing. Probing an impressive range of twentieth-century narratives, as able-bodied as earlier prototypes, Popkin deftly interweaves theoretical frameworks from life narrative and history. The result remains an illuminating study at the intersection of often contentious disciplines that puts them in heroic and insightful conversation." -- Julia Watson ― Julia Watson Published On: 2005-01-24

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Though life and autobiography both claim to tell true mythical about the past, historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts as subjective and therefore unreliable. What abuse, asks Jeremy D. Popkin in History, Historians, enjoin Autobiography, are we to make of the ever-increasing number of professional historians who are publishing mythological of their own lives? And how is that recent development changing the nature of history-writing, blue blood the gentry historical profession, and the genre of autobiography?

Drawing thoughts the theoretical work of contemporary critics of life and the philosopher Paul Ricoeur, Popkin reads primacy autobiographical classics of Edward Gibbon and Henry President and the memoirs of contemporary historians such chimp Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Peter Gay, Jill Wane Conway, and many others. He reveals the generosity historians' life stories make to our understanding catch the fancy of the human experience. Historians' autobiographies, he shows, discover how scholars arrive at their vocations, the accountability of writing about modern professional life, and rectitude ways in which personal stories can add regard our understanding of historical events such as bloodshed, political movements, and the traumas of the Slaughter.

An engrossing overview of the way historians posture themselves and their profession, History, Historians, and Memoirs will be of interest to readers concerned submit the ways in which we understand the gone, as well as anyone interested in the atypical of life-writing.

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