Overview
- Explores the potential of combining micro-history and global history
- Chapters include examples from the middle ages to the present day, across North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Europe
- Questions macro-analytical approaches to global labour history, both addressing the issue of spatiality and prompting a re-evaluation of methodological and theoretical strategies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a ‘micro-spatial’ approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and unevennesses characterizes the global history that emerges here. We use labour as our lens in this volume. The resulting micro-spatial history of labour addresses the management and recruitment of labour, its voluntary and coerced spatial mobility, its political perception and representation and the workers’ own agency and social networks. The individual chapters are written by contributors whose expertise covers the late medieval Eastern Mediterranean to present-day Sierra Leone, through early modern China and Italy, eighteenth-century Cuba and the Malvinas/Falklands, the journeys of a missionary between India and Brazil and those of Christian captives across the Ottoman empire and Spain. Theresult is a highly readable volume that addresses key theoretical and methodological questions in historiography.
Chapter 7 is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christian G. De Vito is Research Associate at the University of Leicester, UK, and Lecturer at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He has published extensively on global labour history and has co-edited a volume on Global Convict Labour. His on-going research is on convict transportation in the Spanish empire.
Anne Gerritsen is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK, where she has directed the Global History and Culture Centre. She has published on global material culture, the history of design, and Chinese history, especially the history of porcelain manufactures, but also local religion and gender.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour
Editors: Christian G. De Vito, Anne Gerritsen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58490-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58489-8Published: 06 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86416-7Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58490-4Published: 28 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 357
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Labor History, Historiography and Method