Penny Summerfield (UK University of Manchester)

Broschiertes Buch

Histories of the Self

Personal Narratives and Historical Practice

Beschreibung

Histories of the Self introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Supported by case studies, it is essential reading for students and researchers interested in how personal testimony has been and can be used by historians.

Autor

Penny Summerfield is Professor Emerita of Modern History at the University of Manchester. She is the author of numerous publications using a range of genres of personal narrative, notably Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives : Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War (1998) and Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780415576192
• ISBN-10: 0415576199
• Artikelnr.: 52377016