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About Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
- Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (born August 29, 1957) is an Icelandic historian specialising in microhistory.
- He has been an independent scholar for most of his career.
- He established the Center for Microhistorical Research (http://www.akademia.is/sigm/) at the Reykjavík Academy (http://www.akademia.is/index.php/en) in 2003.
- He currently holds a research position at the National Museum of Iceland (http://www.natmus.is/english) named after Dr.
- Kristján Eldjárn, the former president of Iceland and an archaeologist.
- The following text is based on his book The History War: Essays and Narrative on Ideology (Reykjavik, The Center for Microhistorical Research, 2007) (http://www.akademia.is/sigm/sogustrid.html), which is autobiographical in nature and deals with historiographical issues such as the development of ideas which are part of the microhistorical agenda.
- Magnússon is the author of 16 books (http://www.akademia.is/sigm/publications.html) and has been involved in the publication of nine more through a book series which he has co-edited.
- His latest book, titled Wasteland with Words.
- A social history of Iceland (http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/book.html?id=412) was published in 2010 by Reaktion Books (http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/) in England.
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