LEADER 04052nam 22005177i 4500001 ssj0002221013 003 WaSeSS 005 20230112080332.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 190628t20192019aca sb 000 0ceng d 010 2019403508 020 9781760462741 |q(paperback) 020 |z9781760462758 |q(ebook) 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0002221013 040 ANV |beng |cANV |dANV |dYDX |dOCLCF |dDLC |dWaSeSS 042 lccopycat 043 e-uk---u-at---n------ 049 EREENEHH 050 00 CT103 |b.T78 2019 245 00 'True biographies of nations?' |h[electronic resource] : |bthe cultural journeys of dictionaries of national biography / |cedited by Karen Fox. 260 Canberra : |bANU Press, |c2019. 300 viii, 229 pages ; |c24 cm. 490 0 ANU.Lives series in biography 504 Includes bibliographical references. 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 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. 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 1 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. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 650 0 Biography |vDictionaries. |=^A2154 651 0 Great Britain |vBiography. |=^A442478 651 0 Australia |vBiography. |=^A671911 651 0 North America |vBiography. |=^A122229 655 0 Electronic books. |=^A491897 700 1 Fox, Karen. |=^A694361 710 2 Australian National University Press. |=^A1372274 856 40 |zFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eastcarolina/detail.action?docID=5775658 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJOYNER188 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hHSL77 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJMUSIC60 596 1 3 4 998 5951855