Hello: I’m looking for recommendations for *innovative* historical biographies that have appeared recently.
I’m particularly interested in biography against the grain (eg the classics by Ginzburg, NZ Davis, or Corbin on Pinagot).
So academic crossover vibe more than politician-hobby-historian vibe 🗃️
I’m particularly interested in biography against the grain (eg the classics by Ginzburg, NZ Davis, or Corbin on Pinagot).
So academic crossover vibe more than politician-hobby-historian vibe 🗃️
Comments
most of it is shots from between bigger scenes that ended up in big documentaries throughout her career, and it tells a life
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5375040/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2fzkpnj
They’re plenty, in all areas of historical study, but
but my preference is for academic/trade crossover examples, and those do sometimes like the term as it makes sense to broader audiences
https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-abstract/101/2/231/173248/Witnesses-to-Freedom-Paula-s-Enslavement-Her
Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives
captures socio-cultural change in Australia over the late nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries through the biography of Monte Punshon (who lived to the age of 106).
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-abbe-gregoire-and-the-french-revolution/hardcover