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Historians’ Autobiographies as Historiographical Inquiry offers a groundbreaking exploration of how autobiographical writings by historians illuminate the practice and development of historical scholarship. Jaume Aurell investigates the relationship between personal narrative and professional historiographical work, demonstrating that historians’ life stories provide crucial windows into understanding how historical knowledge is created, validated, and transmitted across cultures.
Through a global perspective, this volume analyzes autobiographical accounts from historians across different regions, traditions, and time periods. Aurell argues that these personal narratives reveal the subjective dimensions of historical practice often obscured in traditional scholarship. By examining how historians reflect on their own intellectual journeys, research methodologies, and theoretical commitments, the work contributes significantly to meta-historical understanding and the philosophy of history.
Part of the Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series, this book serves as both a theoretical intervention and a methodological guide for scholars interested in historiography, intellectual biography, and the sociology of historical knowledge.
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