| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 229 pages). |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
ANU.Lives series in biography
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ANU.Lives series in biography.
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| Contents |
1. The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of Biography / Karen Fox -- PART I: THE DIGITAL AGE. 2. Individual Lives and National Truths: Locating Biographies within a National Encyclopedia / Jock Phillips -- 3. The Irish World: How to Revise a Long-Standing Dictionary Project / Turlough O'Riordan -- 4. What is National Biography For? Dictionaries and Digital History / Philip Carter -- 5. Using Lives: The Australian Dictionary of Biography and Its Related Corpora / Melanie Nolan -- PART II: THE REPRESENTATIONAL CHALLENGE. 6. Why Gender Matters: Fostering Diversity in the American National Biography with Lessons Learned from Notable American Women / Susan Ware -- 7. Women and the Biographies of Nations: The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women / Elizabeth Ewan -- 8. An Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography / Shino Konishi -- 9. Writing the Nation in Two Languages: The Dictionary of Welsh Biography / Dafydd Johnston -- PART III: THE TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSION. 10. Writing a Dictionary of World Biography / Barry Jones -- 11. British National Biography and Global British Lives: From the DNB to the ODNB -- and Beyond? / David Cannadine -- 12. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography and the Irish Diaspora / David A. Wilson. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access |
National edeposit: Available online Unrestricted online access. AU-CaNED |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Biography -- Dictionaries. |
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Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Australia -- Biography.
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Australia. |
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North America -- Biography.
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North America. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Dictionaries.
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Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Fox, Karen, editor.
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Australian National University Press.
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| ISBN |
9781760462758 (electronic book) |
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1760462756 (electronic book) |
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9781760462741 paperback |
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1760462748 paperback |
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