Ebook: Biography between structure and agency: Central European lives in international historiography

Introduction: biography in modern history, modern historiography in biography / Simone Lässig -- Biography and the historian: opportunities and constraints / Ian Kershaw -- Dreams and nightmares: writing the biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II / John C.G. Röhl -- Gustav Stresemann: a German Bürger? / Karl Heinrich Pohl -- Women's biographies, men's history? / Angelika Schaser -- Historiography, biography and experience: the case of Hans Rothfels / Jan Eckel -- A historian's life in biographical perspective: John Huizinga / Christoph Strupp -- The heroic ecstasy of drunken elephants: the substrate of nature in Max Weber, a missing link between his life and work /Joachim Radkau -- Generational experience and genocide: a biographical approach to Nazi perpetrators / Michael Wildt -- Criminal biographies and biographies of criminals: understanding the history of war crimes trials and perpetrator "routes to crime" using biographical method / Hilary Earl -- From Himmler's circle of friends to the Lions Club: the career of a provincial Nazi leader / Hartmut Berghoff and Cornelia Rauh-Kühne -- Contexts and contradictions: writing the biography of a Holocaust survivor / Mark Roseman -- The improbable biography: uncommon sources, a moving identity, a plural story? / Willem Frijhoff -- Structuralism and biography: some concluding thoughts on the uncertainties of a historiographical genre / Volker R. Berghahn.;Although the volume concentrates on European historiography, its strong methodological and conceptual focus will be of great interest to non-European historians wrestling with the old "structure-versus-agency" question in their own work."--Jacket.