Dr. Matti Peltonen
Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki.
e-mail: Matti.Peltonen@helsinki.fi
Some recent publications
- Peltonen, M. (2014).
“What Is Micro in Microhistory?”, in Rendres H. & Haan, B,., eds. Theoretical Discussion of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing. (Egodocuments and History Series, vol. 7), pp. 104-118.
- Peltonen, M. (2014).
“How Marginal are the Margins Today? On the Historiographical Place of Microhistory”, in De Haan, B. & Mierau, K., eds. Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel: A First Exploration into Commensurable Perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 29-46.
- Peltonen, M. & Heinonen, V., eds. (2013).
Finish Consumption: An Emerging Consumer Society Between East and West. SKS Finnish Literature Society.
Texts to download
- Peltonen, M. (2008).
“The Weber Thesis and Economic Historians”. Max Weber Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 79-98.
- Peltonen, M. (2004).
“From Discourse to Dispositif: Michael Foucault’s Two Histories”. Historical Reflections, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 205-219.
- Peltonen, M. (2001).
“Clues, Margins, and Monads: The Micro-Macro Link in Historical Research”. History and Theory, no. 40, pp. 347-359.