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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*
History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 237-256, June 2026.ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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CUHSOEste artículo plantea una reflexión sobre la vulnerabilidad y el fuego en la historia urbana latinoamericana. En primer lugar, se hace un recorrido historiográfico que permite constatar la necesidad e importancia actual de incorporar los estudios del ...
Diego Arango López
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Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
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Proyecciones de memoria del largo 1917: ecos simbólicos en el Partido Comunista de España y el Partido Comunista Italiano [PDF]
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2017 The article analyzes several types of memory on 1917 and the Soviet revolution, focusing on some memory’s strategies of the Communist Party of Spain and the Italian Communist Party. It briefly attends four different historical junctures (1937, 1949, 1956
Andrea Donofrio +1 more
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Forma y política de lo urbano. La ciudad como idea, espacio y representación
Revista Ciudades, Estados y Política, 2018 Este libro compila once capítulos de historia urbana sobre distintos espacios del mundo articulados, principalmente, alrededor de la dimensión política de las formas urbanas.
Diego Arango López
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Sexuality, Gender &Policy, Volume 8, Issue 4, November 2025.ABSTRACT For over 30 years, the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua bordering Texas and New Mexico has experienced and witnessed multiple forms of violence across its rural and urban regions. Communities are besieged with cartel and gender‐based violence and the saturation of international corporations that pay less than livable wages for workers in ...
Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla +1 more
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La pregunta por la existencia de la historia urbana [PDF]
Historia Crítica, 1999 The emergence of urban history as a specific field of research is not as old as we could boast. For its existence to be possible, it was necessary to become aware of the historicity of the city, that is, to clearly distinguish between what is the count of its annals and what is the elaboration of an explanation of the contemporary city.
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, July/September 2025.Borderlads Biliteracies Abstract ABSTRACT In this theoretical paper, we aim to (re)imagine and (re)conceptualize biliteracy as an anti‐colonial endeavor to destabilize colonial projects that continue to permeate how language and literacy are conceptualized in schools.
Idalia Nuñez +2 more
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Urban Tree Growth and Drought Responses Show Evidence of Climate Resilience
Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 6, June 2025.Urban trees face increasing risks from climate change, including drought and heatwaves, which threaten their growth and survival. By studying 10 tree species across seven Australian cities, we found that local climate strongly influences tree growth, and that some species are well adapted to urban climates.
Manuel Esperon‐Rodriguez +6 more
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