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How to be a historian, scholarly personae in historical studies, 1800-2000, edited by Herman Paul

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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How to be a historian

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edited by Herman Paul

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scholarly personae in historical studies, 1800-2000

Introduction : scholarly personae : what they are and why they matter / Herman Paul -- 1. The contested persona of the historian : on the origins of a permanent conflict / Ian Hunter -- 2. Ranke vs Schlosser : pairs of personae in nineteenth-century German historiography / Herman Paul -- 3. Fixing genius : the Romantic man of letters in the university era / Travis E. Ross -- 4. Generational continuities and composite personae : French historiography from the 1870s to the 1950s / Camille Creyghton -- 5. Pasha and his historic harem : Edward A. Freeman, Edith Thompson, and the gendered personae of late-Victorian historians / Elise Garritzen -- 6. Interpretive and investigative : the emergence and characteristics of modern scholarly personae in China, 1900-30 / Q. Edward Wang -- 7. Coalescence and conflict : historians and their personae in the Portuguese New State / António da Silva Rêgo -- 8. The emergence of the English Marxist historian's persona : the English Revolution debate of 1940-41 / Sina Talachian -- 9. Of communism, compromise and Central Europe : the scholarly persona under authoritarianism / Monika Baár -- 10. What is an African historian? Negotiating scholarly personae in UNESCO's General History of Africa / Larissa Schulte Nordholt -- 11. The finitude of personae : Bryce Lyon, François Louis Ganshof, and the biography of Pirenne / Henning Trüper