microhistory

 

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microhistory

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From micro- +‎ history.

microhistory (countable and uncountable, plural microhistories)

1. The study of the past on a small scale, such as an individual neighborhood or town, as a case study for general trends.

   Antonym: macrohistory

   • 2003, The New Zealand Journal of History, University of Auckland, page 45:

     The most celebrated works of microhistory are Carlo Ginzberg's The Cheese and the Worms, a difficult but very rewarding, if contentious, exploration of popular belief and the impact of literacy in sixteenth-century Italy […]

   • 2009 September 13, Daphne Merkin, “Dame of the British Interior”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     What is certain is that in “The Pattern in the Carpet,” Drabble eschews both chronology and raw autobiographical revelation for a more meandering approach that touches briefly on family pathology and private pain as it crisscrosses the centuries and unfolds the microhistory of jigsaw puzzles, an English invention, circa 1767.

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