The roundtable discussion “The possibilities of microhistory in university education” will take place in Paris (Maison Suger, 16–18, rue Suger, Paris, 75006) on 3 June 2011, from 9 to 11.30 a.m., organized by the Institute of Advanced Study – Paris. It has the objective to summarize the steps that have Read more…
I remarked, via email, to István Szijártó that we microhistorians had a good deal to teach the whole discipline of history. He asked me to write out my reasons. I do so here not to lay down dogma but to stir comment from fellow practitioners. It seems to me that Read more…
Dear all, I am happy to throw my own experience right here, in the email. Twice, recently, I gave my Canadian students (third-year course) a sprawling criminal trial from Rome. It was a wonderfully complex affair involving a disgraced official of the grain office, upon whose fall there surfaced very Read more…
ARTICLES Sigrun Alba Sigurðardóttir: Apertures of another understanding. Photographs of children at work. Monument and Memory. Edited by Jonna Bornemark, Mattias Martinson og Jayne Svenungsson. Zürich og Münster: LIT Verlag, 2015, p. 127-143. Szijártó, István: Puzzle, fractale, mosaïque. Pensées sur la micro-histoire. L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques. Revue électronique Read more…
E-mail Homepage James Amelang is Professor of Early Modern History at the Departamento de Historia Moderna, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid. His main fields of interest are the social and cultural history of early modern Barcelona, the history of early modern Spain and urban discourse in early modern Europe.
A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS OF AND ABOUT MICROHISTORY See also: Recent books and articles A Amelang, James Microhistory and its Discontents: The View from Spain, in Carlos Barros, ed., Historia a Debate (Historia a Debate, Santiago de Compostela, 1995), vol. II, pp. 307–12. Amelang, James The Myth of the Mediterranean Read more…
Amato, Anthony (Southwest Minnesota State University) Amelang, James (Universidad Autónoma, Madrid) Andrade, Tonio (Emory University, Atlanta) Andreozzi, Daniele (University of Trieste) Aslanian, Sebouh David (University of California, Los Angeles) Barboza da Silva, Rosimeire (University of Coimbra) Bárth, Dániel (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) Bährisch, Eunju (Freie Universität Berlin) Bell, David A. (Princeton University, Read more…