Beschreibung
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
Autorenporträt
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.
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Springer Verlag GmbH
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E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com
