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The Historians' Preposterous Project
- Common Knowledge
- Duke University Press
- Volume 25, Issues 1-3, April 2019
- pp. 167-170
- Article
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Abstract:
Contrasting its author's microhistorical approach with other historical methodologies, especially that of Keith Thomas, Clendinnen praises Kirsten McKenzie's A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010) for deftly tying the apparently idiosyncratic stories of a transported convict and the noble family whose scion he impersonated to more pervasive dynamics in nineteenth-century British imperial culture.