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

All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
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
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Paper: Paging Through History
Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,046 books — 2,117 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medical Microhistories
96 books — 88 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSay Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Library Book by Susan OrleanWhy We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Fascinating Non-Fiction
137 books — 28 voters

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
527 books — 208 voters
1421 by Gavin Menzies1434 by Gavin MenziesThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Holy Bible by AnonymousMein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Worst historical non-fiction
40 books — 41 voters


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