Changing Conceptions of National Biography : The Oxford DNB in Historical Perspective

Changing Conceptions of National Biography : The Oxford DNB in Historical Perspective

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Book Description
The publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in September 2004 was an event of great literary and scholarly importance. In his Leslie Stephen Lecture, commemorating the founder of the original Dictionary of National Biography, the celebrated historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of it. The author, who has been chairman of the Supervisory Committee of the Oxford DNB since its inception, writes with intimate knowledge of the project.

About the Author
Former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and of the British Academy, Keith Thomas is one of the most distinguished historians in the world.

Changing Conceptions of National Biography: The Oxford DNB in Historical Perspective,Keith Thomas,Cambridge University Press,0521671183,Books & Reading,Europe - Ireland,History,History: World,Literature - Classics / Criticism,World - General,British & Irish history,History / World,Ireland,World history

Books Report:

1. Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820
2. Cromwell and the Interregnum: The Essential Readings (Blackwell Essential Readings in History)
3. Culture Contact in the Pacific
4. Dead Countries of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
5. Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800-1900
6. Deciphering Global Epidemics : Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records of World Cities, 1888-1912 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
7. Dictators in the Mirror of Medicine: Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin
8. Earliest English Kings
9. Economic Voting (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science)
10. Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century : Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought)

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