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AbstractThis article has two goals. It reflects on the recent developments and agenda of an approach to historical writing that is now becoming known by the name global microhistory, and it analyses the attention which this approach pays to individual lives. It also explores some of the challenges in writing the biography of a city alongside the life history of a person. The city is Harbin, a former Russian-managed railway hub in Manchuria, today a province capital in Northeast China. The person is Baron Roger Budberg (1867–1926), a physician of Baltic German origin who arrived in Harbin during the Russo-Japanese war and remained there until his death, leaving published works and unpublished correspondence in German and Russian. My forthcoming book about Budberg and Harbin challenges the distinction between writing "biography", on the one hand, and "history", on the other, while navigating between the "micro" and "macro" layers of historical enquiry.

Resumen: Después de describir la situación política en la que nacieron la Microhistoria y la Historia Global, en este artículo se propone una definición amplia de ambos campos con el objetivo de establecer cuáles innovaciones metodológicas realizaron. Al mismo tiempo, el autor muestra una serie de renovadas perspectivas, que le permiten estudiar la influencia de estas corrientes y la relación que establecieron con otras ciencias sociales -además de la Historia y la Antropología-, y con el sentido político y científico del debate historiográfico actual. Con esto estudio se busca entonces esclarecer las incertidumbres del concepto de lo global. Abstract : This article describes the political situation in which Microhistory and global history developed. It also proposes a broad definition of both fields in order to establish the methodological innovations derived from them. At the same time, the author presents a series of renewed perspectives, which enable the study of the influence of these trends and the relationships they established with other social sciences -besides History and Anthropology- and the political and scientific directions of the current historiographical debate. This study aims to clarify the uncertainties of the concept of the global. Resumo : Após descrever a situação política na qual a micro-história e a história global nasceram, neste artigo, propõe-se uma definição ampla de ambos os campos com o objetivo de estabelecer quais inovações metodológicas realizaram. Ao mesmo tempo, o autor mostra uma série de renovadas perspectivas que lhe permitem estudar a influência dessas correntes e a relação que estabeleceram com outras ciências sociais -além da História e da Antropologia-, e com o sentido político e científico do debate historiográfico atual. Com este estudo, procura-se esclarecer as incertezas do conceito do global.

This paper provides an account of the author's family history in the context of her microhistorical research into the lives of her mostly peasant ancestors living in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Szentes, a small agricultural town in the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain. After becoming a recognized branch of historical research, in the past decade microhistory has made its way into genealogical research, offering an approach and methodology that allows for the piecing together of information about ancestors even when detailed accounts or documents are missing – either because they were lost or because they never existed in the first place. Such microhistories then offer insight into and provide important details for local social history, results that take family history work well beyond the personal scope.

This article refines our understanding of abolitionism as "the first modern social movement" through a microhistory of abolitionism in an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British town. Examining requisitions, which collected signatures calling on a mayor to convene public meetings to launch parliamentary petitions or other associational activities, the article shows how antislavery mobilization in Plymouth grew amongst a multiplying variety of religious, political, cultural, and economic institutions. Through a prosopography of those initiating antislavery petitions, an analysis of the other requisitions they supported, and qualitative evidence from leading abolitionists' personal papers, the article details the ways local leaders raised petitions for a national campaign. Civic and religious dynamism at this local level facilitated new forms of contentious mobilization on national and imperial issues. The article therefore directs causal attention to those socioeconomic changes that underpinned the associational cultures of abolitionism.