Hayden White
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This article is about the historian. For the footballer, see Hayden White (footballer).
Hayden V. White (July 12, 1928 – March 5, 2018) was an American historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973/2014).
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Born | Hayden V. White (1928-07-12)July 12, 1928 |
Died | March 5, 2018(2018-03-05) (aged 89) |
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Alma mater | University of Michigan |
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Discipline | History |
Doctoral students | Nancy Struever |
Notable students | Lawrence Grossberg |
Main interests | Metahistory |
Notable works | Metahistory (1973) |
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