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“When My Life Goes Out …” Biography of the Argentinian Communist Activist Fanny Edelman (1911–2011)
This chapter examines the biography of Fanny Edelman, born Fanny Jacovkis (1911–2011). She was the most important leader of the Communist Party of...
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Introduction: A View of the Intellectual Biography
With this introduction it is revealed the book’s purpose and the unique perspective through which one can reason on the origins of the Constitution...
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Early Historiography of Science
The chapter focuses mainly on early historiography of mathematics (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries). The earliest historiographical essays are...
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Early Historiography of Science
The chapter focuses mainly on early historiography of mathematics (fifteenth to seventeenth centuries). The earliest historiographical essays are...
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Protecting the Image: Was Rav Hayyim of Volozhin’s Portrayal of the Vilna Gaon an Altered Image?
Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720–1797), known as the Vilna Gaon (the Gra), became an icon of Torah learning, saintliness, and devotion to Torah...
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A Love Story That Never Happened
Focusing on his research for a biography of Brazilian singer and composer Miriam Batucada, Ricardo Santhiago reflects on an unexpected event. After...
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Nina Vasilievna Popova (1908–1994): “Woman in the Land of Socialism”
Nina Popova was one of the most important figures in the struggle for the improvement of women’s status after World War Two in the USSR. She took...
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“To Produce Remorse in Every Enlightened Reader.” Frances Crewe’s Publication of Sancho’s Letters
Frances Crewe published all of Sancho’s letters she could, and arranged them to emphasize his clearest expression of antislavery and opposition to...
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The Business Motive
In 1966 when Renzo De Felice turned to the Matteotti murder in his multi-volume biography of Mussolini, the materials he had available convinced him...
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Biography and Imperial Governance
This chapter is the second part of the Legation’s collective biography that shows the constitution of its elite. Based on a wealth of archival...
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The Age of Rumpole Is Past? Legal History on British Television
On the release in 2016 of Sally Smith QC’s biography of Sir Edward Marshall Hall called A Law Unto Himself, members of the English bar were seen...
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Introduction
Existing works on Kavalam Madhava Panikkar (1894–1963) are very limited and, mostly, they focus either on his work as an historian or on his...
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Scavenger and Bricoleur: A Critical Analysis of Dick Hebdige’s Repurposing of Subculture Through the Intersection of Biography and History
This chapter explores Dick Hebdige’s approach towards subculture from his MA thesis, Aspects of Style in the Deviant Subcultures of the Sixties, at...
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Eminent in the World: Introduction and Motivation
This introduction outlines the context and motivation for a biography of George Minchin and establishes the context of Minchin’s historical and...
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Tragedy, Trauma, and the Transformations of Local Memory
This chapter presents methodological reconfigurations needed in a research project with residents of a community affected by the rupture of a mining...
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Teresa Noce (1900–1980): A Communist “Professional Revolutionary” in Twentieth-Century Italy
This chapter examines the biography of Teresa Noce (1900–1980), a key leader of the Italian Communist Party. After the founding of the Communist...
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“Carving Their Place in History”: Reconstructing Public Memories of Anti-Colonial Struggle Through Malawian Women’s Writing
Many female African scholars have observed that in most national narratives about the liberation struggle against colonialism, the contributions made...
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Work, Morality, and Discipline in Sixteenth-Century Geneva
This paper analyses idea about the place of work in the life of John CalvinCalvin, John and the impact of Reformed moral discipline in the changing...