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What is Microhistory?

Theory and Practice
BookPaperback
Ranking406363inGeschichte
CHF79.90

Description

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.

This book 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. This book is essential reading for students of historiography.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-415-69209-0
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date17/05/2013
Pages192 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 154 mm, Height 233 mm, Thickness 12 mm
Weight302 g
Article no.15111077
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.20566937
Product groupGeschichte
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Author

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).