Format:
Online-Ressource (192 p)
ISBN:
9780203500637
Content:
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, István M. Szijártó examines the historiography of microhistory in the Italian, French, Ge
Note:
Cover; What is Microhistory?; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; PART I; Introduction: Against simple truths; 1 Italian microhistory; 2 Under the impact of microstoria: The French and German perspective; 3 Microhistory in a broader sense: The Anglo-Saxon landscape; 4 The periphery and the new millennium: Answers and new questions; PART II; 5 The doctor's tale: The living and the dead; 6 Refashioning a famous French peasant; 7 New and old theoretical issues: Criticisms of microhistory; 8 A West Side story, and the one who gets to write it
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781135047078
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe What is Microhistory
Language:
English
URL:
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