Microhistory

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

Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination
Salt: A World History
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
The Ghost Map
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Paper: Paging Through History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Lucky by Scott NelsonThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaGRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  L. NelsonCommon Sense Ain’t So Common by Scott  L. NelsonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Fascinating Non-Fiction
143 books — 40 voters

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane AckermanGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorMarine Pollution by Judith S. WeisA Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
Best of Diane Ackerman
26 books — 4 voters
Salt by Mark KurlanskyAt Home by Bill BrysonTHE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR by Ahmed AlshuwaikhatGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Histories of the Everyday
380 books — 432 voters



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