Giovanni Levi
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Giovanni Levi (born 29 April 1939) is an Italian historian. He is Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.[1] He is one of the pioneers in the field of microhistory.[2]
Selected works
[edit]- Centro e periferia di uno Stato assoluto. Tre saggi su Piemonte e Liguria in età moderna. Rosenberg e Sellier, Turin 1985, ISBN 88-7011-211-X.
- Das immaterielle Erbe. Eine bäuerliche Welt an der Schwelle zur Moderne. Wagenbach, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-8031-3527-3.
- On Microhistory. In: New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Pennsylvania State University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-271-00834-2.
- Geschichte der Jugend. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-10-021410-2.
- The Origins of the Modern State and the Microhistorical Perspective. In: Mikrogeschichte – Makrogeschichte. Komplementär oder inkommensurabel? Wallstein, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-89244-321-1.