Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper, I consider John French's biography,Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil(2020). French discusses his methodology, which he characterizes as “a social biographical approach”. I argue that this methodology is already in historians’ toolkit. Historians writing biography seem to start with first premises rather than building on what went before. I thus contextualize the methodology, situating French's biography of Lula within more general shifts in approaches to biography.
Author: Melanie Nolan
Institution: Australian National University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4289222860