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
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise
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
Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
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
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Murder: The Biography
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
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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 — 435 voters
Hawaii by James A. MichenerSarum by Edward RutherfurdLondon by Edward RutherfurdChesapeake by James A. MichenerThe City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
Place Biographies
35 books — 9 voters


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