0203500636 (electronic bk.)

9780203500637 (electronic bk.)

0415692083 (hardback)

0415692091

9780415692083 (hardback)

9780415692090

"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. Szíjártó 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, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon 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." -- Publisher's description.

"What is Microhistory provides the first accessible and comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, methodology and position of Microhistory"-- Provided by publisher.

Italian microhistory

Under the impact of microstoria: the French and German perspective

Microhistory in a broader sense: the Anglo-Saxon landscape

The periphery and the new millennium: answers and new questions

The doctor's tale: the living and the dead

Refashioning of famous French peasant

New and old theoretical issues: criticism of microhistory

A West Side story, and the one who gets to write it

Postscript: To step into the same stream twice.