Sigurà °ur Gylfi Magnusson, Istvan M. Szijarto

What is Microhistory?

Theory and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780415692090
• ISBN-10: 0415692091
• Artikelnr.: 37293283

Autorenporträt

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon is currently the chair of the Center for Microhistorical Research at the Reykjavík Academy (www.microhistory.org) and Dr. Kristján Eldjárn Research Fellow at the National Museum of Iceland. He is the author of seventeen books and numerous articles published in Iceland and abroad. His previous publications include Wasteland with Words . A Social History of Iceland (2010). István M. Szijártó is Associate Professor in the Department of Economic and Social History at Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary. He is the author of three books and several articles published in Hungary and abroad. His previous publications include Experience, Agency, Responsibility. The Lessons of Russia's Microhistory (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I (István M. Szijártó) 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 (Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon) 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.