microhistory
microhistory noun: the study of the past on a small scale, such as an individual neighborhood or town, as a case study for general trends.
Noun
microhistory (countable and uncountable, plural microhistories)
- 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
- 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...2009 September 13, Daphne Merkin, “Dame of the British Interior”, in New York Times
- Antonyms:
- macrohistory
Antonyms of microhistory
Forms of microhistory
| plural | microhistories |
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Origin of microhistory
From micro- + history.
Words formed from microhistory
Questions about microhistory
- What does microhistory mean?
- Microhistory means the study of the past on a small scale, such as an individual neighborhood or town, as a case study for general trends.
- What part of speech is microhistory?
- Microhistory is a noun.
- What is the plural of microhistory?
- The plural of microhistory is microhistories.
Words near microhistory in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: 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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