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- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2016 by the
- ISSN
- 0942-8704
- eISSN
- 2194-4032
- DOI
- 10.7788/ha-2016-0308
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Debatte A reply to Hans Medick by 1. At first sight, global microhistory appears to be a rather paradoxical endeavor, implying the simultaneous enlarging and contracting of the optic of historical understanding.1 this sense of paradox is amplified by the ambiguous status of microhistory in an age of global history. on the one hand, there is an impression that the "global turn" marks the return to large-scale, macro-level accounts of historical change. this is also the thrust of recent pronouncements on the way forward for historical research, where "big questions" of societal transformation grasped in their totality, so much an integral element of the founding spirit and ambition of social history in the 1960s, have returned to the historian's agenda.2 likewise, the central message of the recently published History Manifesto urges the replacement of microhistorical accounts in order to renew interest in long-term problems of development and change via a return to the longue durée, as a means of revitalizing the study of history and reasserting its wider public relevance.3 on the other hand, however, the primary focus of global history is on the connections and exchanges that link processes, places, and people across national, cultural, and geographical
Journal
Historische Anthropologie – de Gruyter
Published: Dec 1, 2016