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

When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice
Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
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
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World
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
The Ghost Map
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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
H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanWesley the Owl by Stacey O'BrienThe Wild Birds by Emily StrelowSilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Books for Bird Lovers
532 books — 211 voters
The Frozen River by Ariel LawhonBurial Rites by Hannah KentAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Island of Sea Women by Lisa SeeHamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Micro-Historical Fiction
133 books — 17 voters

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingGorillas in the Mist by Dian FosseyOut of Africa by Isak DinesenHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Rainforests and Jungles of the World
393 books — 111 voters
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraFascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightEnlightenment Now by Steven PinkerChildren of Nazis by Tania Crasnianski
Historical Nonfiction 2018
220 books — 54 voters


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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?
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