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Uganda developed as a British protectorate in a manner which made it virtually impossible for any indigenous politician to emerge as the unchallenged leader of his country. Obote: A Political Biography describes the efforts of one man to find a pragmatic solution to that problem, and in doing so to create a united, democratic Uganda. Kenneth Ingham makes the first attempt to trace the political career of Obote through the ups and downs of his two presidencies and his time in exile during the military dictatorship of Idi Amin. The book challenges accusations of tyranny and argues th.

Biography as a historical description is possible in different forms: as historical evidence, as a value or value judgment, as modeling history according to the principle "als ob" ("as if"). The latter type of biography can be accepted as a heuristic and hypothetical model of events in the absence of reliable evidence, when the biography is created from indirect sources. Modeling by the principle "als ob" was invented by Hans Feichinger, a little-known original follower of the philosophy of I. Kant.

Der Verfasser setzt sich mit dem Stellenwert von Biographien in der Geschichtswissenschaft auseinander. Er arbeitet Elemente heraus, die die Biographie zu einer anderen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Arbeiten gleichwertigen historischen Monographie machen. Am Beispiel der vom Autor verfaßten Biographie über Wilhelm Marr ("Der Patriarch des Antisemitismus") werden drei solcher Elemente benannt. Hierbei geht es um das historische Phänomen als Angelpunkt der Monographie, die psychologische Erklärungsdimension und den Aspekt der sozialen Interaktion. (ICE)

Built upon archival sources recently made available at the National Francisco Franco Foundation and the authors' extensive interviews with the general's daughter, Carmen Franco Polo, this new biography adds an intimate glimpse into Franco's personal and family life to the extant historiography of Franco's military career and the political machinations of his regime. Many negative portrayals of the dictator already exist. The authors successfully take great pains to be objective and balanced as they simultaneously eschew writing a hagiography of Franco and situating his seizure of the state within the context of interwar chaos and violence.

Twaddle reviews 'Obote, a political biography' by Kenneth Ingham.