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microhistories

microhistories is the plural of microhistory.

Meaning of microhistory

Noun

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.
    • 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[…]2003, The New Zealand Journal of History, University of Auckland, page 45
    Antonyms:
    macrohistory

Questions about microhistories

What is microhistories the plural of?
Microhistories is the plural of microhistory.

Words near microhistories in the dictionary

  1. microhistorian
  2. microhistorians
  3. microhistoric
  4. microhistorical
  5. microhistorically
  6. microhistories
  7. microhistory
  8. microhm
  9. microhmmeter
  10. microhmmeters
  11. microhms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: microhistories (page history and authors); microhistory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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