Prospect or refuge? microhistory, history on the large scale: A response

Cultural and Social History

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 387-397

  de Vivo, Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global history; Historiography; Microhistory; Realism; Scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955147698     PISSN: 14780038     EISSN: 14780046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/147800410X12714191853427     Document Type: Article

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30. Compare, for example, Brewer's micro-researches on popular politics and imagination with his macro-work on the history of consumption: John Brewer, Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (Cambridge, 1976)
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41. See also Ginzburg's preface to the first Italian edition of Bloch's Rois Thaumaturges: Marc Bloch, I re taumaturghi: Studi sul carattere sovrannaturale attribuito alla potenza dei re particolarmente in Francia e in Inghilterra (Turin, 1973), pp. xi-xix.
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45. More examples in Thomas and Elizabeth Cohen, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates (Toronto, 1993)
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56. a similar argument appeared in a later article: Davis, 'Cosa c'è di universale nella storia?', Quaderni Storici, 123 (2006), pp. 737-43.
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78. see also his Centro e periferia di uno stato assoluto: Tre saggi su Piemonte e Liguria in età moderna (Turin, 1985).