Beschreibung:
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.
Part I (Istvan M. Szijarto) Introduction: Against simple truths. Chapter 1: Italian microhistory. Chapter 2: Under the impact of microstoria: the French and German perspective. Chapter 3: Microhistory in a broader sense: the Anglo-Saxon landscape. Chapter 4: The periphery and the new millennium: answers and new questions. Part II (Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson) Chapter 5: The doctor's tale: the living and the dead. Chapter 6: Refashioning of famous French peasants. Chapter 7: New and old theoretical issues: criticism of microhistory. Chapter 8: A West Side story, and the one who gets to write it. Postscript: To step into the same stream twice. References. Extended Bibliography. Index.