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Microhistory is the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (most often a single event, concept or general trend)

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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Most Read This Week Tagged "Microhistory"

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
How the States Got Their Shapes
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
Books: A Living History
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat
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Popular Microhistory Books

Salt: A World History
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
A History of the World in 6 Glasses

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