What is Microhistory?

This unique and detailed analysis provides the first accessible and comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, methodology of microhistory ¿ one of the most significant innovations in historical scholarship to have emerged in the last few decades. This book surveys the significant characteristics shared by large groups of microhistorians, and how these have now established an acknowledged place within any general discussion of the theory and methodology of history as an academic discipline. This book is essential reading for students of historiography.