E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study
the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates,
and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an
analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical
sources. Merging literary studies on autobiography with theories of
history, it provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the
autobiographies of the most outstanding historians, from the
classic texts by Giambattista Vico, Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams,
to the Annales historians such as Fernand Braudel, Philippe Aries
and Georges Duby, to Marxist historians such as Eric Hobsbawm and
Annie Kriegel, to postmodern historians such as Carolyn Steedman,
Robert A. Rosenstone, Carlos Eire, Luisa Passerini, Elisabeth
Roudinesco, Gerda Lerner and Sheila Fitzpatrick, and to
"interventional" historians such as Geoff Eley, Jill Ker Conway,
Natalie Davis and Gabrielle Spiegel. Using a comparative approach
to these texts, this book identifies six
historical-autobiographical styles: humanistic, biographic,
ego-historical, monographic, postmodern, and interventional. By
privileging historians' autobiographies, this book proposes a
renewed history of historiography, one that engages the theoretical
evolution of the discipline, the way history has been interpreted
by historians, and the currents of thought and ideologies that have
dominated and influenced its writing in the 20th and 21st
centuries.
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