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What is Microhistory? - Theory and Practice (Paperback, New)
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What is Microhistory? - Theory and Practice (Paperback, New)
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This unique and detailed analysis provides the first accessible and
comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, methodology
of microhistory - one of the most significant innovations in
historical scholarship to have emerged in the last few decades. The
introduction guides the reader through the best-known example of
microstoria, The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, and
explains the benefits of studying an event, place or person in
microscopic detail. In Part I, Istvan M. Szijarto examines the
historiography of microhistory in the Italian, French, Germanic and
the Anglo-Saxon traditions, shedding light on the roots of
microhistory and asking where it is headed. In Part II, Sigurdur
Gylfi Magnusson uses a carefully selected case study to show the
important difference between the disciplines of macro- and
microhistory and to offer practical instructions for those
historians wishing to undertake micro-level analysis. These parts
are tied together by a Postscript in which the status of
microhistory within contemporary historiography is examined and its
possibilities for the future evaluated. What is Microhistory?
surveys the significant characteristics shared by large groups of
microhistorians, and how these have now established an acknowledged
place within any general discussion of the theory and methodology
of history as an academic discipline.
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