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Microhistory is the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (most often a single event, community of a village, family or person). In its ambition, however, microhistory can be distinguished from a simple case study insofar as microhistory aspires to "[ask] large questions in small places", to use the definition given by Charles Joyner ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Microhistory"

All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
Sweat: A History of Exercise
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation
Dolls of Our Lives
Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (Game Histories)
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures)
Murder: The Biography
Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy – An Oral History with Exclusive Interviews from Iconic Stars and Filmmakers
Egg: A Dozen Ovatures
Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult
Answers in the Form of Questions: A Definitive History and Insider's Guide to Jeopardy!
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
The Domestic Revolution
American Cheese: An Indulgent Odyssey Through the Artisan Cheese World
The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West
Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails
Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World
Evidence of Things Seen
The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
A Boob's Life: How America's Obsession Shaped Me... and You
The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
Craft: An American History
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are
Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball
Eyeliner: A Cultural History
Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out
Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods
Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances
The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood
Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All

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“ History is not merely about kings and their wars. We should know the story of people at large-not necessarily only those of politicians or film stars. How else can we relate to the lives of people influenced by the socio-political milieu, beyond their control? ”
― S.Krishnaswamy
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