TY - BOOK ID - 1733449 TI - Shaping history PY - 2007 SN - 9780521604697 9780521843652 9780511557859 9781107321847 1107321840 051155785X 9781107316454 1107316456 0521843650 0521604699 1139810243 9781139810241 1107195713 9781107195714 1107318297 9781107318298 1299399541 9781299399549 1107315476 9781107315471 110731741X PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - History as a science KW - Autobiography KW - History, Modern KW - Political sociology KW - Mass political behavior KW - Political behavior KW - Political science KW - Sociology KW - Autobiographies KW - Egodocuments KW - Memoirs KW - Biography as a literary form KW - Political aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - History and criticism KW - Technique KW - Political sociology. KW - Political aspects. KW - Social Sciences KW - History, Modern - 1989 KW - -Autobiography - Political aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1733449 AB - Featuring extraordinary personal accounts, this book provides a unique window through which to examine some of the great political changes of our time, and reveals both the potential and the challenge of narrating the political world. Molly Andrews' novel analysis of the relationship between history and biography presents in-depth case studies of four different countries, offers insights into controversial issues such as the explosion of patriotism in post -9/11 USA; East Germans' ambivalent reactions to the fall of the Berlin Wall; the pressures on victims to tell certain kinds of stories while testifying before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and the lifelong commitment to fight for social justice in England. Each of the case studies explores the implicit political worldviews which individuals impart through the stories they tell about their lives, as well as the wider social and political context which makes some stories more 'tell-able' than others. ER -