Bloomsbury Handbook of Microhistory
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- ISBN 9781350461147
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Microhistory provides the first detailed examination of a field which has rapidly expanded in the last three decades. Characterised by a focus on the very small, an obsessive thoroughness of investigation and an inventiveness of exposition, microhistory has matured significantly as an approach amongst historical researchers and practitioners during this time. Consequently an overview of this nature - surveying microhistory's origins, current state and future directions - is a critical development for this increasingly vibrant area of the discipline.
The Handbook is arranged in four thematic Parts: Decades of Insight into Microhistory, Microhistory around the World, Microhistory and Different Methodological Approaches, and Microhistory as a Conceptual Framework. With contributions from world-renowned scholars, including Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg and Giovanni Levi, and the international involvement of experts based in the United States, Iceland, Norway, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Mexico, Italy, France and Denmark, this collection innovatively merges the local and the global as it presents the most authoritative exploration of microhistory published to date.
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon is Professor of Cultural History and Chair of the Center for Microhistorical Research at University of Iceland, Iceland. He has written 28 published books, including Archive, Slow Ideology and Egodocuments as Microhistorical Autobiography: Potential History (2021) and Emotional Experience and Microhistory (2020). He is also co-editor, with István M. Szijártó, of the Microhistories book series.
Deivy Ferreira Carneiro is Professor of History at Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil. He has written six books and numerous articles published in Brazil, Italy, Portugal, and Chile. His interests extend to the history of violence and criminality, popular justice, Italian microhistory, the roles of spaces, norms, experience and interdependency in social action.
Thomas V. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities at York University, Canada. He is the author of Love and Death in Early Modern Italy (2004), which won the American Historical Association's Marraro Prize, and Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory (2019).
