Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour
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 awarenes
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MICRO-SPATIAL HISTORIES OF
GLOBAL LABOUR
Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour
Christian G. De Vito · Anne Gerritsen Editors
Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour
Editors Christian G. De Vito School of History University of Leicester Leicester, UK
Anne Gerritsen Department of History University of Warwick Coventry, UK
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Preface
In May 2015, the Institute of World History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing invited the historian Hans Medick to give a lecture, drawing on his work on the remote Swabian village of Laichingen, located in the mountainous region of Württemberg in southern Germany.1 Medick’s 1996 masterpiece features the daily struggle for survival of the weavers and farmers of Laichingen, and forms part of an approach known as Alltagsgeschichte or the history of the everyday. But Medick’s approach is also explicitly a micro-historical one: he reads the history of Laichingen through a micro-historical lens to reveal a view on the past as a whole, or general history (allgemeine Geschichte).2 The lecture in Beijing was well-received, as Medick describes in a recent publication.3 There were questions that connected the proto-industrial labour practices of Laichingen to the pattern of development in the Yangtze delta between Nanjing and Shanghai, and an observation by Institute Dire
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