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Prosopography and microhistory: illuminating historical actors

open access: yes, 2023
People as actors can be the subject of historical research, en masse, individually or as groups. This chapter outlines two research methods for the consideration of current or future researchers involving the writing of history on the lives and careers ...
Karen McBride (20011482)   +1 more
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História sem causa? A nova história cultural, a grande narrativa e o dilema pós-colonial History without cause? The new cultural History, the grand narrative and the postcolonial dilemma

open access: yesHistória, 2003
Este artigo examina o declínio das grandes narrativas historiográficas norte-americanas, associado ao auge da nova história cultural. A influência da antropologia cultural, com destaque para Clifford Geertz, resultou no privilegiamento da micro-história ...
Barbara Weinstein
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The Musician and the Senator. The Microhistory of a Friendship

open access: yes, 2023
This book was conceived as a laboratory on microhistory, an attempt to illustrate its main processes and advantages. Through the microhistorical approach the reader is off on an adventurous journey to discover an individual person’s point of view: that ...
Barra, Vincenzo
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Microhistory and Archaeology: Some Comments and Contributions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Archaeology has always kept an inconsistent relationship with history. For decades, archaeology has either largely rejected what history could offer, such as among certain processual archaeologists, or it has cherry-picked certain elements of historical ...
Ribeiro, A
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Judicial practice of the Penza Criminal Court’s Chamber in 1812–1815

open access: yesИзвестия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки, 2022
Background. In recent years, the interest in the Patriotic War of 1812 has not faded in Russian historiography. It is important to study the impact of such a large-scale event on the most diverse aspects of society. The purpose of this work is to analyze
G.A. Chernov
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Urbanity, Decline, and Regeneration in Later Medieval England: Towards a Posthuman Household Microhistory

open access: yesOpen Archaeology
It is proposed that combining a microhistorical approach with the frameworks offered by household archaeology and posthumanism provides a way of rethinking what urbanity means in archaeological (specifically later medieval) contexts.
Jervis Ben
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Conversaciones sobre el pasado

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2014
Historians of Andean archeology have long overlooked conversations between Peruvian and European or North American scholars – transatlantic relations in late-nineteenth century Americanist archaeology. They have focused on individuals or groups on either
Stefanie Gänger
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An Appraisal of Environmental Microhistory: Epistemological and Historiographical Insights

open access: yesFronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, 2018
The late flourishing of environmental history has been accompanied by attempts to combine it with a microhistorical approach, improving our understanding of specific events of the past as well as pointing to relevant historical insights at the macro ...
Marco paulo Vianna Franco
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Microhistories of composition

open access: yes, 2016
Writing studies has been dominated throughout its history by grand narratives of the discipline, but in this volume Bruce McComiskey begins to explore microhistory as a way to understand, enrich, and complicate how the field relates to its past. Microhistory investigates the dialectical interaction of social history and cultural history, enabling ...
McComiskey, Bruce, editor   +1 more
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Interpreting prisoners-of-war. Sketches of a military translation culture in Finnish POW camps during World War II (1941-1944)

open access: yesChronotopos, 2019
In the four years of Finland’s Continuation War against the USSR, Finnish troops captured 67,000 Soviet prisoners-of-war who were handled behind lines in an extended network of POW formations.
Pekka Kujamäki, Päivi Pasanen
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