'True Biographies of Nations?': The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography
Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English-speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects' recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large-scale collaborative biographical dictionary research.
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'True Biographies of Nations?': The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography
Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English-speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects' recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large-scale collaborative biographical dictionary research.
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'True Biographies of Nations?': The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography

'True Biographies of Nations?': The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography

'True Biographies of Nations?': The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography

'True Biographies of Nations?': The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography

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Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English-speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects' recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large-scale collaborative biographical dictionary research.

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ISBN-13: 9781760462741
Publisher: Anu Press
Publication date: 04/17/2019
Series: Anu Lives Biography
Pages: 238
Product dimensions: 6.02(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.65(d)
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