To study the Fragments/Whole: Microhistory and the Atlantic World. From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Putnam, Lara | COPYRIGHT 2006 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

 
  the unity is submarine 
  breathing air, our problem is how to study the fragments 
  whole ... 
  --Edward Kamau Braithwaite (b. Barbados, 1930), 
  "Caribbean Man in Space and Time" (1) 

This essay is about the past, present, and future connections between two kinds of history: microhistory and Atlantic history. The first is a well-defined and long-standing label, perhaps not much in fashion today; the second is a somewhat inchoate emerging field and apparently a ho...

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