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Bookscapes through Microhistory : Looking for the (Un)common Reader in Early Modern England

XVII-XVIII, 2023
This essay is an investigation into book history, inspired by microhistory and supported by archival research. It offers a reflection on what microhistory, in Carlo Ginzburg’s acceptation and practice, can contribute to a history of the book that wishes ...
Anna Maria Cimitile
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom

Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 46-54, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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POISONOUS IMAGES: Taranto's Environmental Crisis between the Visible and the Invisible

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 247-274, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores poisonous images—images that both register and trouble the visibility of toxicity in Taranto, Italy, one of Europe's most polluted cities due to the continent's largest steel factory. Centered on photographs taken in the city's contaminated cemetery, the essay asks how slow violence can be apprehended ethnographically ...
JASMINE CLOTILDE PISAPIA
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Historical anthropology as a training course and a field in historical science of the second half of the 20th century: university experience

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования
In the first quarter of the 21st century, the issue of the humanization of society in general and the humanization of education in particular was still on the agenda and became even more relevant.
T. A. Bulygina, T. E. Pokotilova
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Comparative reading of The cheese and the worms by Carlo Ginzburg and The Inheriting Power by Giovanni Levi

Historia y Sociedad, 2016
The Cheese and the Worms and Inheriting Power are two emblematic works of Italian microhistory. This is a comparative exercise between both publications, in an attempt to identify some clues about the microhistorical paradigm.
Michelle Evans Restrepo
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Remembering Wai‐Horotiu: microhistory, public art, and Indigenous environmental justice in Tāmaki Makaurau

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 1348-1371, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Few people walking along Queen Street in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, realise they are treading above Wai‐Horotiu, a historically significant stream now buried beneath the urban landscape. In this paper, I examine how Wai‐Horotiu, once vital to the socio‐cultural and ecological well‐being of mana whenua, was systematically canalised, polluted ...
Meg Parsons
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Ordinary Yet Emblematic: The Transnational Correspondence Between an American GI and His Sweetheart during the Korean War

European Journal of Life Writing, 2019
Operating on the core premise of microhistory, that the lives of ordinary people are endowed with explanatory power for a specific period or event in history, this article analyses the war-time letters from the 1950s written by an American serviceman and
Elizabeth Bruns
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Short Stories of Refugeedom: Encounters between Refugees, UNHCR, and the Australian Government, 1951–1975

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 4, Page 718-734, December 2025.
This article draws upon individual confidential case files compiled by the UN Office for Refugees (UNHCR) between 1951 and 1975 to examine its response to refugees who requested protection and to analyse policy and practice in Australia as a country of resettlement.
Peter Gatrell
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Chasing the Ghost of Melesina Trench: A film by Qina Liu in collaboration with Katharine Kittredge

ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2013
Filmmaker Qina Liu has created a short documentary about Katharine Kittredge's decade-long quest to learn about the life and work of Anglo-Irish diarist and poet Melesina Trench.
Katherine Kittredge, Qina Liu
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Iconic or Routine Disasters? Environmental Learning in Aotearoa New Zealand

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2026.
Eric Pawson, Katie Pickles, Michael Roche   +2 more
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