TY - BOOK ID - 137686288 TI - Biography between structure and agency : Central European lives in international historiography AU - Berghahn, Volker R. AU - Lassig, Simone PY - 2008 SN - 1282626906 9786612626906 0857450492 9780857450494 9781282626904 6612626909 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Europeans KW - Social sciences KW - Biography KW - History and criticism. KW - Biographical methods. KW - Europe, Central KW - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137686288 AB - "While 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."--Provided by publisher. ER -