Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians. The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are...

These women (community and government leaders, activists, artists, writers, scholars, politicians, and others) made important contributions to the state's history and culture.

The volume of W.S. Barnard is a first in a series of life-histories of the founding geographers in South Africa published by the Centre of Geographical Analysis at Stellenbosch University. Life-histories are reported in five ways: the commendation lauds the winner of an award; the obituary by necessity speaks well of the dead; the brief entry in a dictionary or encyclopedia is highly stylized and constrained by editorial guidelines; in the autobiography...

"The articles in this collection were first published in the Canberra Times between 14 November 2005 and 22 April 2006 in a slightly different format. In some cases two articles were published on the one secretary. These have been combined into one and minor edits and corrections have been made. The articles have not been updated to take account of events since they were first published."--Publisher's website

In December 1885, under the watchful eye of Mark Twain, the publishing firm of Charles L. Webster and Company released the first volume of the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. With a second volume published in March 1886, Grant’s memoirs became a popular sensation. Seeking to capitalize on Grant’s success and interest in earlier reminiscences by Joseph E. Johnston, William T. Sherman, and Richard Taylor, other Civil War generals...

Solidaridad está lejos de ser la primera palabra para nombrar la característica más prominente del sujeto contemporáneo; no es un término con el que la sociedad actual identifica a los jóvenes, al menos, no mucho más que amenaza, indiferencia, dependencia, consumo o desidia; y no es el tipo de experiencia con el que nuestro mundo profundamente desigual identifica al joven de las comunas de Medellín, las favelas de Brasil, las villas-miseria...

"In Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court: Antiquity as Innovation, Dirk Jansen provides a survey of life and career of the antiquary, architect, and courtier Jacopo Strada (Mantua 1515-Vienna 1588). His manifold activities -- also as a publisher and as an agent and artistic and scholarly advisor of powerful patrons such as Hans Jakob Fugger, the Duke of Bavaria and the Emperors Ferdinand I and Maximilian II -- are examined in...

Wie veränderten sich unter der Nazi-Herrschaft Leben und Alltag derer, die verfolgt wurden? Ein außergewöhnliches wissenschaftliches Preisausschreiben der Harvard Universität stellt im Jahr 1939 diese Frage und sammelt über 180, zum Teil umfangreiche autobiographische Manuskripte von Emigrantinnen und Emigranten aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland sowie aus Österreich. Der Korpus ist bis heute weitgehend unerschlossen. Detlef Garz...

Gesellschaftliche Umbrüche bedeuten für Migrierende und ihre Familien eine besondere Herausforderung; zusätzlich zur meist notwendigen Neuaushandlung der Beziehungen nach der Migration eines Familienmitglieds. Die biographisch angelegte Fallstudie untersucht diesen Prozess in grenzübergreifend organisierten ecuadorianischen Familien und schaut besonders auf sich verschiebende Machtbalancen. Die Bedeutung der jüngsten Wirtschaftskrise im...