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Microhistory is a branch of the study of history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
. First developed in the 1970s microhistory is the study of the past on a very small scale. The most common type of microhistory is the study of a small town or village. Other common studies include looking at individuals of minor importance, or analysing a single painting. Microhistory is an important component of the "new history
New history

The term new history from the French term nouvelle histoire, was coined by Jacques Le Goff and Pierre Nora, leaders of the third generation of the Annales School, in the 1970s....
" that has emerged since the 1960s.






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Microhistory is a branch of the study of history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
. First developed in the 1970s microhistory is the study of the past on a very small scale. The most common type of microhistory is the study of a small town or village. Other common studies include looking at individuals of minor importance, or analysing a single painting. Microhistory is an important component of the "new history
New history

The term new history from the French term nouvelle histoire, was coined by Jacques Le Goff and Pierre Nora, leaders of the third generation of the Annales School, in the 1970s....
" that has emerged since the 1960s. It is usually done in close collaboration with the social sciences, such as anthropology
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
 and sociology
Sociology

Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
.

Local history

Microhistory is to be distinguished from local history
Local history

Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context and it often concentrates on the local community. It incorporates cultural history and social history aspects of history....
, in which research is not seen as a case study for more general historical trends, but is appreciated for its inherent interest to the local community.

Microhistorians

Noted microhistorians include:
  • Luis Gonzalez y Gonzalez
  • Wolfgang Behringer
  • Alain Corbin
    Alain Corbin

    Alain Corbin is a France historian, specialist of the 19th century in France.Trained in the Annales School, Corbin's work has moved away from the large-scale collective structures studied by Fernand Braudel towards a history of sensibilities which is closer to Lucien Febvre's History of mentalities....
  • Theo van Deursen
  • Natalie Zemon Davis
    Natalie Zemon Davis

    Natalie Zemon Davis is a Canada and United States historian of early modern Europe. Her work originally focused on France, but has since broadened....
  • Clifford Geertz
    Clifford Geertz

    Clifford James Geertz was an United States anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey....
  • Carlo Ginzburg
    Carlo Ginzburg

    Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. He is most famous for his ground-breaking book, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina....
  • Craig Harline
  • Mark Kurlansky
    Mark Kurlansky

    Mark Kurlansky is a highly-acclaimed American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction. He is especially known for titles on eclectic topics, such as cod or salt....
  • Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
    Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

    Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a noted French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the ancien regime, focusing on the history of the peasantry....
  • Giovanni Levi
  • Simona Cerutti
  • Luis Mott
  • Detlev Peukert
    Detlev Peukert

    Detlev Peukert was a left-wing German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the "spirit of science" and the Holocaust and in social history....
  • Osvaldo Raggio
  • Jacques Revel
  • David Sabean
  • Stella Tillyard
    Stella Tillyard

    Stella Tillyard is a British literature, best known for the best-selling Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 which was made into a Aristocrats in 1999....
  • Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
  • Alfred F. Young
  • Jonathan D. Spence


See also

  • Local History
    Local history

    Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context and it often concentrates on the local community. It incorporates cultural history and social history aspects of history....
  • Alltagsgeschichte
    Alltagsgeschichte

    Alltagsgeschichte is a form of microhistory that was particularly prevalent amongst German historians during the 1980s.The name comes from German, where Alltag means "everyday life"; it can thus be roughly translated as "everyday history"....
  • History from below
    History from below

    History from below is a concept of history in social history, which focuses on the perspectives of ordinary people, rather than political and other leaders....
  • Scottish Rural Life, History Dictionary
Category:Microhistorians


External links

  • - The website of the Center for Microhistorical Research at the Reykjavik Academy in Iceland.