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- noun history The study of the past on a small scale, such as an individual neighborhood or town, as a
case study for general trends
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Examples
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Stern contended that "details are everything in this kind of microhistory, in which an inaccurate word or phrase can distort our perception of the historical record."
A Near Miss 2008
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Stern contended that "details are everything in this kind of microhistory, in which an inaccurate word or phrase can distort our perception of the historical record."
A Near Miss 2008
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The book I wrote just prior to this one constituted, perhaps, a step toward biography: By telling a story of events that happened in a small town in just a few days, what historians call a "microhistory," I used a tiny fragment of history to illuminate large themes and problems.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The book I wrote just prior to this one constituted, perhaps, a step toward biography: By telling a story of events that happened in a small town in just a few days, what historians call a "microhistory," I used a tiny fragment of history to illuminate large themes and problems.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The book I wrote just prior to this one constituted, perhaps, a step toward biography: By telling a story of events that happened in a small town in just a few days, what historians call a "microhistory," I used a tiny fragment of history to illuminate large themes and problems.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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In his magnificent and humane microhistory, Christopher Browning has drawn on the "written, transcribed, and/or taped accounts of 292" Jewish survivors, most of them from Wierzbnik, who shared a similar experience of the war.
Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History (New York Review) 2010
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In his magnificent and humane microhistory, Christopher Browning has drawn on the "written, transcribed, and/or taped accounts of 292" Jewish survivors, most of them from ...
Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History (New York Review) 2010
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In his magnificent and humane microhistory, Christopher Browning has drawn on the "written, transcribed, and/or taped accounts of 292" Jewish survivors, most of them from Wierzbnik, who shared a similar experience of the war.
Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History (New York Review) 2010
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One is macrohistory, while the other is microhistory.
Great structures? Daniel Little 2009
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One is macrohistory, while the other is microhistory.
Archive 2009-01-01 Daniel Little 2009
chained_bear commented on the word microhistory
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October 1, 2008