Microhistory is an approach to history that takes as its subject an especially small, well-defined, clearly delimited unit, in order to demonstrate larger points or examine larger issues. For instance, microhistories may take as their subject a single community, a single event like a natural disaster, or a single battle (or single day of a battle) in a war. Unlike case studies, microhistories are not defined only by their scale but by their motivation, which is to tease out the larger issues... więcej

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