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Local History

Local History is a subfield of historical study that investigates the past of a specific, geographically bounded community or locality, reconstructing its social, cultural, economic, and political development in relation to wider regional, national, and global contexts.

7.2K

Publications

299.6K

Citations

8.8K

Authors

1.3K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

282

Variants

Local History Research

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Publications

7.2K

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Arthur T. Row, Jane M. Jacobs · The Yale Law Journal · 1962 · 9.2K citations

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Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

Barry W. Allen · Common Knowledge · 2003 · 3K citations

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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

D. S. F., Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz · Bird-Banding · 1950 · 2.4K citations

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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.

J.R. Horton, Mike Davis · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1991 · 2K citations

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The Geographical Pivot of History

H. J. Mackinder · Geographical Journal · 1904 · 1.5K citations

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Authors

8.8K

  1. PC
    Peter Clark

    Met Office, United Kingdom

    11 publications · 781 citations

    11

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  2. CW
    Charles Withers

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    11 publications · 387 citations

    11

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  3. DB
    Darrett B. Rutman

    University of Minnesota System, United States

    10 publications · 478 citations

    10

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  4. BG
    Bruce G. Trigger

    McGill University, Canada

    9 publications · 596 citations

    9

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  5. TR
    Timothy R. Paüketat

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    9 publications · 621 citations

    9

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Institutions

1.3K

  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    38 publications

    1.7K citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    44 publications

    10.3K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    18 h-index

    31 publications

    2.3K citations

  4. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    17 h-index

    26 publications

    725 citations

  5. University of Birmingham

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    33 publications

    1K citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    22 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    16 h-index

    21 publications

    947 citations

  8. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    16 h-index

    25 publications

    1.1K citations

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Venues

  1. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 584 publications · 29.7K citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 669 publications · 32K citations

    88

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  3. Journal of American History

    335 publications · 12K citations

    54

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  4. The Economic History Review

    204 publications · 7.8K citations

    49

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  5. Journal of Historical Geography

    129 publications · 4.7K citations

    40

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