Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory

The Resource Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory
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Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory
Title remainder
method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory
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edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R.N. DeCorse, and John Walton
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Language
eng
Summary
"The essential feature of this perspective is a search for significance in the microcosm, the large lessons discovered in small worlds. Urging the recognition of potential commonalities among archaeology, history, sociology, and anthropology, the authors propose that historical interpretation should move freely across disciplines, historical study should be held up to the present, and individual lives should be understood as the intersection of biography and history. The authors develop these themes in a kaleidoscope of places and periods - West Africa, the Yucatan peninsula, Italy, Argentina, California, Brazil, Virginia, and Boston, among others. They illuminate discrete places, people, and processes through which both the intimacy of lived experience and the more distant forces that shaped their days can be viewed simultaneously."--BOOK JACKET
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DLC
Dewey number
301
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
GN345
LC item number
.S565 2008
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series

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