TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Contributors
List of Contributors

Introduction

Introduction: Seeing the World like a Microhistorian
John-Paul A Ghobrial

Part I: The Prospect of Global Microhistory: Two Points of View

Playing with Scales: The Global and the Micro, the Macro and the Nano
Jan de Vries

Frail Frontiers?
Giovanni Levi

Part II: Experiments in the Space Between Global History and Microhistory

Sea Otters and Iron: A Global Microhistory of Value and Exchange at Nootka Sound, 1774–1792
Maxine Berg

Where the Devil Stands: A Microhistorical Reading of Empires as Multiple Moral Worlds (Manila–Mexico, 1577–1580)
Romain Bertrand

Three Ways of Locating the Global: Microhistorical Challenges in the Study of Early Transcontinental Diplomacy
Zoltán Biedermann

Jurisdictional Pluralism in a Litigious Sea (1590–1630): Hard Cases, Multi-Sited Trials and Legal Enforcement between North Africa and Italy
Guillaume Calafat

Microhistories of Long-Distance Information: Space, Movement and Agency in the Early Modern News
Filippo de Vivo

Recalcitrant Seeds: Material Culture and the Global History of Science
Sarah Easterby-Smith

Moving Stories and What They Tell Us: Early Modern Mobility Between Microhistory and Global History
John-Paul A Ghobrial

The World in a Book: The Creation of the Global in Sixteenth-Century European Costume Books
Giorgio Riello

A Plea for Global Comparison: Redefining Dynasty
Jeroen Duindam

History Without Scale: The Micro-Spatial Perspective
Christian G De Vito

Index

Index to Global History and Microhistory: (Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations. n = footnote.)