Microhistory
Subtitle: advantages and limitations for the study of early American history
By: University of Connecticut
Contributors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Publisher: University of Connecticut
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Storrs, Ct
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Methodology; Congresses; Historiography
Notes: Title from cover.

"A conference sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of Connecticut’s Department of History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Research Foundation, and Chancellor’s Office"

"October 15-17, 1999. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut"

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Religion and society on a small scale : an experimental history of church and town in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the ministries of Thomas Shepard and Jonathan Mitchell, 1636-1669 / David Hall; title: All the things they made : the artisanal dimension in the emotional lives of early New Englanders / Allegra di Bonaventura Hogan; title: Microhistory and biography / Jill Lepore / "This late misfortune you have experienced in the family" : family scandal in the British-Atlantic world / Sarah Pearsall; title: "Let this book speak for me: : the uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith's New Nation / Fredrika J. Teute.; title: Chiefdom, confederacy, majority : the structure of indigenous community and the transformation of the colonial southeast / Jennifer Baszile.