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This book aims to demonstrate how scholars in recent times have
been utilizing egodocuments from various angles and providing an
opening for the multivocality of the sources to be fully
appreciated. The first part of the book is concerned with the
significance of egodocuments, both for the individual him/herself
who creates such documents, and also for the other, who receives
them. The author approaches the subject on the basis of his own
personal experience, and goes on to discuss the importance of such
documents for the academic world, emphasizing more general
questions and issues within the fields of historiography,
philosophy of history, microhistory, and memory studies. The second
part of the book is based upon a photographic collection - an
archive - that belonged to the author's grandfather, who over
decades accumulated photographs of vagabonds and outsiders. This
part seeks to explore what kind of knowledge can be applied when a
single source - an archive, document, letter, illustration, etc. -
is examined, and whether the knowledge derived may not be quite as
good in its own context as in the broader perspective.
Emotional Experience and Microhistory explores the life and death
of Magnus Hj. Magnusson through his diary, poetry and other
writing, showing how best to use the methods of microhistory to
address complicated historical situations. The book deals with the
many faces of microhistory and applies it's methodology to the life
of the Icelandic destitute pauper poet Magnus Hj. Magnusson
(1873-1916). Having left his foster home at the age of 19 in 1892,
he lived a peripatetic existence in an unstinting struggle with
poor health, together with a ceaseless quest for a space to pursue
writing and scholarship in accord with his dreams. He produced and
accumulated a huge quantity of sources (autobiography, diary,
poems, reflections) which are termed by the author as
'egodocuments'. The book demonstrates how these egodocuments can be
applied systematically, revealing unexpected perspectives on his
life and demonstrating how integration of diverse sources can open
up new perspectives on complex and difficult subjects. In so doing,
the author offers an understanding both of how Magnusson's story
has been told, and how it can give insight into such matters as
gender relations and sexual life, and the history of emotions.
Highlighting how the historiographical development of modern
scholarship has shaped scholars' ideas about egodocuments and
microhistory around the world, the book is of great use and
interest to scholars of microhistory, social and cultural modern
history, literary theory, anthropology and ethnology.
This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people
in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using
the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and
consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research
material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor
knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in
the everyday life of the peasantry. The focus is on the history of
education and communication in a global perspective. Rather than
engaging in comparing different countries or regions, the authors
seek to view and study early modern and modern manuscript culture
as a transnational (or transregional) practice, giving agency to
its ordinary participants and attention to hitherto overlooked
source material. Through a microhistorical lens, the authors
examine the strength of this aspect of popular culture and try to
show it in a wider perspective, as well as asking questions about
the importance of this development for the continuity of the
literary tradition. The book is an attempt to explain "the nature
of the literary culture" in general - how new ideas were
transported from one person to another, from community to
community, and between regions; essentially, the role of minor
knowledge in the development of modern men.
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, Sigurour
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.
Emotional Experience and Microhistory explores the life and death
of Magnus Hj. Magnusson through his diary, poetry and other
writing, showing how best to use the methods of microhistory to
address complicated historical situations. The book deals with the
many faces of microhistory and applies it's methodology to the life
of the Icelandic destitute pauper poet Magnus Hj. Magnusson
(1873-1916). Having left his foster home at the age of 19 in 1892,
he lived a peripatetic existence in an unstinting struggle with
poor health, together with a ceaseless quest for a space to pursue
writing and scholarship in accord with his dreams. He produced and
accumulated a huge quantity of sources (autobiography, diary,
poems, reflections) which are termed by the author as
'egodocuments'. The book demonstrates how these egodocuments can be
applied systematically, revealing unexpected perspectives on his
life and demonstrating how integration of diverse sources can open
up new perspectives on complex and difficult subjects. In so doing,
the author offers an understanding both of how Magnusson's story
has been told, and how it can give insight into such matters as
gender relations and sexual life, and the history of emotions.
Highlighting how the historiographical development of modern
scholarship has shaped scholars' ideas about egodocuments and
microhistory around the world, the book is of great use and
interest to scholars of microhistory, social and cultural modern
history, literary theory, anthropology and ethnology.
This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people
in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using
the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and
consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research
material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor
knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in
the everyday life of the peasantry. The focus is on the history of
education and communication in a global perspective. Rather than
engaging in comparing different countries or regions, the authors
seek to view and study early modern and modern manuscript culture
as a transnational (or transregional) practice, giving agency to
its ordinary participants and attention to hitherto overlooked
source material. Through a microhistorical lens, the authors
examine the strength of this aspect of popular culture and try to
show it in a wider perspective, as well as asking questions about
the importance of this development for the continuity of the
literary tradition. The book is an attempt to explain "the nature
of the literary culture" in general - how new ideas were
transported from one person to another, from community to
community, and between regions; essentially, the role of minor
knowledge in the development of modern men.
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.
Design of analog multipliers discusses what an analog multiplier
and its related types is, how different types of analog multipliers
are implemented with analog two to one multiplexers and op-amps,
and how the types of analog multipliers are implemented with
transistors and op-amps. Describing forty-eight analog multiplier
circuits, book explains six building blocks as integrator,
comparator, switch, low pass filter, peak detector and sample &
hold circuit. All analog multiplier circuits presented in this book
use a maximum of four operational amplifiers which will enable the
readers to simulate the multipliers with minimum number of
components and use for their application at low cost.
Iceland appears to many a country shrouded in mystery and legend,
and marked by contradiction: a part of Europe, and yet separated
from it by the Atlantic Ocean; seemingly inhospitable, and yet home
to more than 300,000 souls. Wasteland with Words explores the
evolution and transformation of Icelandic society and culture,
investigating the literary and historical factors that created the
rich cultural heritage enjoyed by Icelanders today. Sigurdur Gylfi
Magnusson presents a wide-ranging and detailed analysis of the
island's history, examining how a nineteenth-century economy based
on the industries of fishing and agriculture - one of the poorest
in Europe - grew to become a disproportionately large economic
power in the late twentieth century, while retaining its strong
sense of cultural identity. The recent economic and political
collapse of the country is also assessed, in the light of the
historical development of the island. With a focus on the lives of
individual Icelanders throughout, the book seeks to chart the vast
changes in this country's history through the impact and effect on
the Icelandic people themselves. "Wasteland with Words" is a
comprehensive study of the island's social and historical
development, from tiny fishing settlements to a global economic
power. It will appeal to anyone interested in or studying this most
enigmatic of islands, and also to those interested in cultural and
social history as a whole.
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