HIS 2. Global Microhistory
Course content
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HIS 2. Global Microhistory
This course introduces students to a new methodological approach to
the writing of history that has become increasingly popular in the
last twenty years. The authors we read tell big stories about the
world, often through obscure people, small places, and seemingly
insignificant events. Global microhistory combines the forensic
research techniques, insights, and writing style pioneered by
Italian and French historians in the 1980s with historiographical
debates and questions raised by global, imperial, social, and
gender historians. It uses a micro-level approach and fine-grained
archival research techniques to challenge macro-narratives and
assumptions while suggesting new insights the human past.
The books we read will cover the globe and several centuries, from
Ming Dynasty China to Reformation England, from revolutionary
America to WWII-era Poland, from eighteenth-century West Africa to
nineteenth-century Mauritius. There will be something for everyone.
Please note the course is reading and discussion intensive and
requires you come to class prepared for seminar-style discussions
each week. Luckily, we’ll be reading some of the most riveting and
exciting history books ever written.
MA-Area 2: Methodological and Analytical Tools
(HHIK03901E)
[Kandidatuddannelsen i historie, 2022-ordningen]
MA-Area 2: Methodological and Analytical Tools (HHIK03901E)
[Kandidatdelen af sidefaget i historie, 2022-ordningen]
MA-Area 8: Historical Area with Focus on Methodology
(HHIK03981E) [kun for studerende, hvis centralfag hører
under et andet hovedområde end humaniora. ÅU-studerende skal være
tilmeldt til eller have bestået 45 ECTS af kandidatsidefaget af
historie før tilmelding]
[Kandidatdelen af sidefaget i historie, 2022-ordningen]
MA-Area 8: Historical Area with Focus on Methodology (HHIK13981E)
[Kandidattilvalg i historie, 2022-ordningen] [ikke muligt
for ÅU-studerende]
Seminar
Journal Articles:
- Lepore, Jill. “Historians Who Love Too Much: Reflections on
Microhistory and Biography.” Journal of American History
88, no. 1 (2001): 129-144.
- Sue Peabody, “Microhistory, Biography, Fiction.”
Transatlantica 2, no. 1 (2012).
- Tonio Andrade, “A Chinese Farmer, Two African Boys, and a
Warlord: Toward a Global Microhistory,” Journal of World
History, Vol. 21, No. 4 (December 2010), pp. 573-591.
- Trivellato, Francesca, “Is There a Future for Italian
Microhistory in the Age of Global History?” California Italian
Studies, vol. 2 (2011).
Monographs:
- Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms
- Jonathan Spence, Death of Woman Wang (Penguin,
1979).
- Sue Peabody, Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets,
and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies, New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Laurel T. Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale. The Life of Martha
Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812, New York: A Knopf:
Distributed by Random House, 1990.
- Jan Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish
Community in Jedwabne, Poland, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton
University Press, c2001.
- Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in
World History, New York : Pantheon Books, c2007.
- James Sweet, Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the
Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, Chapel Hill
[N.C.]: University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
- Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and
Rebellion in an English Village, New Haven: Yale University
Press, c2001.
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This Master’s course requires at least the equivalent to 45 ECTS passed within history. This course is not open to BA students. Questions regarding course registration should be directed to visitingstudents@hum.ku.dk
- ECTS
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
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Other
- Type of assessment details
- Portfolio Provisions: The students are expected to produce a 6-page essay and a 10-page essay. They will have the option to complete the 6-page essay half-way through the course to get feedback from me and through peer review. Both papers will be based entirely on the course reading.
- Exam registration requirements
Criteria for exam assessment
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 56
- Preparation
- 203
- Exam Preparation
- 129,5
- English
- 388,5
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- HHIK04921U
- ECTS
- 15 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
Full Degree Master choiceMaster’s minor subject
- Duration
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1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Price
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- Schedulegroup
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- Studyboard
- Study Board of Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Contracting department
- SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinator
- Jessica Hanser (4-70796e67466e7b7334717b346a71)
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