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  • 7 - Scales

  • from Part II - Concepts and Metaphors
  • Edited by Stefanie Gänger, Universität Heidelberg, Jürgen Osterhammel, Universität Konstanz
  • Book:
    Rethinking Global History
    Published online:
    14 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 161-182
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    This chapter offers an overview of historians’ writings about scale and their debates on micro- and macrohistory in the past half century. It is argued that the complex debates between followers of Italian microstoria, members of the Annales school, and social and cultural historians in the Anglo-American world need to be considered in the context of similar discussions and experiments with scale in literary writings, in artworks and especially in the scholarship in human geography. The chapter claims that, in an era of human-made climate crisis, we should reconsider how we conceptualise the role of particles, microbes, parasites, worms, and other animals in historical writing, going beyond the dichotomy of micro- and macrohistory. It is proposed that the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of ‘jumping scales’ is an especially productive way of discussing how hierarchical power structures are established and disrupted by agents operating at levels that range from the microscopical to the global.