Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: De Vito, Christian G. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gerritsen, Anne (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: World history.; Labor-History.; Historiography.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Labor History.; Historiography and Method.

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...