This inspiring collection of essays from some of the leading and most creative historians writing history, is essential reading for every practicing historian and student of history. These contributions demonstrate why and how microhistory has become one of the most imaginative and popular approaches to writing history today.

Thomas Robisheaux, Professor of History, Duke University, USA

Ranging widely across concepts, methods, and contexts, this book offers an incisive set of reflections from an impressive cast of contributors and connoisseurs. It brings together a set of studies that reflect with humanity and purpose on how historians have sought to conjure up forgotten worlds in marvellous ways at the intersection of the particular and the general.

John-Paul A. Ghobrial, Professor of Modern and Global History, University of Oxford, UK

When going big seems to be the name of the game in history and beyond, this rich and thought-provoking book highlights the ongoing importance of the small and the micro even for the big and the macro. Microhistory in all its perspectives, locales, and deeper theoretical implications in this Bloomsbury Handbook shows how this innovative approach to history continues to break disciplinary boundaries and offer unique perspectives on and possibilities for history and life itself.

Guido Ruggiero, Professor of History and Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami