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

New Releases Tagged "Microhistory"

The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
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
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
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
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Paper: Paging Through History

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