HeyJaredThe Microhistorian
Writings on history from a historian with a PhD in early modern South Asian history.
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Re-reading 'The Idea of History' after a history PhD (opens the original)
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Following the encouraging response on my essay ‘Re-reading ‘What is History’ after a history PhD’ (read here), I have decided to continue this reading series on some of the classics of historical methodology. These are books that have shaped generations of historians, not merely by teaching historical method, but by asking what it means to practise history itself. My reading list begins with E. H. Carr’s What is History?, Marc Bloch’s The Historian’s Craft, and R. G. CollingwoodR
Re-reading 'The Historian's Craft' after a history PhD (opens the original)
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Following the encouraging response on my essay ‘Re-reading ‘What is History’ after a history PhD’ (read here), I have decided to continue this reading series on some of the classics of historical methodology. These are books that have shaped generations of historians, not merely by teaching historical method, but by asking what it means to practise history itself. My reading list begins with E. H. Carr’s What is History?, Marc Bloch’s The Historian’s Craft, and R. G. CollingwoodR
Rethinking through new interventions in microhistory (opens the original)
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In a previous edition of The Microhistorian, I wrote about what my book, The Sky Poured Down Candy, is really about (read here). Although it follows the life of one individual, much like Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms, I never intended it to be simply a biography. My aim was to demonstrate how private letters could become the basis of a microhistory, in which intimate experiences intersect with larger historical structures, and everyday life illuminates broader historical
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