...Colin Richmond In an issue of Common Knowledge given over to experiments in scholarly form and to the discussion of them, this piece is one of three on the genre of microhistory. The other two (by Natalie Zemon Davis and Sir Keith Thomas) argue the merits and demerits of the genre, while this piece...

...Keith Thomas; Jeffrey M. Perl This guest column comprises both a review of the English translation of Carlo Ginzburg’s book Threads and Traces: True False Fictive (2012) and some general comments on the merits and demerits of microhistory as a genre poised between historical writing and fiction...

...Keith Thomas This guest column comprises both a review of the English translation of Carlo Ginzburg's book Threads and Traces: True False Fictive (2012) and some general comments on the merits and demerits of microhistory as a genre poised between historical writing and fiction. The column...

... generally as “cliometrics”) condemned all nonquantitative historians as fuzzy. In a fourth phase, from the 1970s onward, a still newer fuzzy history, comprising historical anthropology, microhistory, and the New Cultural History, was defined against quantitative history by scholars such as Georges Duby...

..., with the distinction between narrative history and fiction, or between discursive philosophy and poetry, is a time-honored maneuver. Hence the appearance in this special issue of three pieces (by historians Natalie Zemon Davis, Sir Keith Thomas, and Colin Richmond) on microhistory, along with the first installment...

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..., 2010) for deftly tying the apparently idiosyncratic stories of a transported convict and the noble family whose scion he impersonated to more pervasive dynamics in nineteenth-century British imperial culture. Copyright © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 microhistory Kirsten McKenzie Natalie...

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..., of Microhistory: The Girard/Cadière Affair. Her article “Carnal Quietism” appeared in the Winter 2006 issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Michael Cook is University Professor in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...

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... mations in its remembered past. We are uninformed as to what history what to as uninformed We are past. remembered its in mations   product great story remains rigorously Western, Mediterranean, and Atlantic-Pacific, this the Meanwhile, microhistories. into dissolved histories shared all...

... mations in its remembered past. We are uninformed as to what history what to as uninformed We are past. remembered its in mations   product great story remains rigorously Western, Mediterranean, and Atlantic-Pacific, this the Meanwhile, microhistories. into dissolved histories shared all...

... mations in its remembered past. We are uninformed as to what history what to as uninformed We are past. remembered its in mations   product great story remains rigorously Western, Mediterranean, and Atlantic-Pacific, this the Meanwhile, microhistories. into dissolved histories shared all...

... mations in its remembered past. We are uninformed as to what history what to as uninformed We are past. remembered its in mations   product great story remains rigorously Western, Mediterranean, and Atlantic-Pacific, this the Meanwhile, microhistories. into dissolved histories shared all...

... mations in its remembered past. We are uninformed as to what history what to as uninformed We are past. remembered its in mations   product great story remains rigorously Western, Mediterranean, and Atlantic-Pacific, this the Meanwhile, microhistories. into dissolved histories shared all...

... mations in its remembered past. We are uninformed as to what history what to as uninformed We are past. remembered its in mations   product great story remains rigorously Western, Mediterranean, and Atlantic-Pacific, this the Meanwhile, microhistories. into dissolved histories shared all...

... mations in its remembered past. We are uninformed as to what history what to as uninformed We are past. remembered its in mations   product great story remains rigorously Western, Mediterranean, and Atlantic-Pacific, this the Meanwhile, microhistories. into dissolved histories shared all...

... mations in its remembered past. We are uninformed as to what history what to as uninformed We are past. remembered its in mations   product great story remains rigorously Western, Mediterranean, and Atlantic-Pacific, this the Meanwhile, microhistories. into dissolved histories shared all...