8. A microhistory

[Soph ♡]

I've got lined up for this prompt. Strangely looking forward to reading it!

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Lawrence wrote: "I've just finished reading British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict and I'm trying to persuade myself I can count it here... but it just doesn't s..."

Those both sound pretty 'micro' to me, especially the second one if you're not comfortable counting the first one.

This is the definition I've been working from: "Microhistory is the intensive historical investigation of a well-defined smaller unit of research (most often a single event, the community of a village, or an individual)."

[Jackie]

Lawrence wrote: "I've just finished reading British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict and I'm trying to persuade myself I can count it here... but it just doesn't s..."

I think both of them count as microhistories. It's not just about narrowness of time period (in fact that doesn't really have to be a factor at all) so much as a narrowness of historical topic. I think you're good to go.

[Tiffany]

Is I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle Mcnamara considered a microhistory?

[Jackie]

Yeah, true crime is kind of a subset of microhistory.

[Lawrence]

Jackie wrote: "Lawrence wrote: "I've just finished reading British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict and I'm trying to persuade myself I can count it here... but ..."

I'm pleasantly surprised that they both sound "micro", but I will certainly accept two votes! Sounds like it was just research-induced tunnel vision making them sound "broad" to me. Thank you!

[StefanieFrei]

Krissy wrote: "I'll be reading:

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"

oh, great - I have always looked for a "reason" to finally buy this :-)