Popkin, Jeremy D., 1948-

History, historians, & autobiography / History, historians, and autobiography Jeremy D. Popkin. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005. - x, 339 p. : 1 p. ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-329) and index.

History and autobiography -- Narrative theory, history, and autobiog raphy -- Historians as autobiographers -- Classic historians' autobiogr aphies : Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams -- Choosing history : the issue of vocation in historians' autobiographies -- Speaking of careers : his torians on their professional work -- Historians' autobiographies and h istorical experience -- Holocaust memories, historians' memoirs -- Hist orians and the redefinition of personal narrative.

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Historians--Biography--History and criticism.
Historiography.
Autobiography.

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