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microhistory: a standalone construct

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Historiography

history written at a reduced scale, studying a single person, village or event closely to reveal wider social patterns.

In historiography, microhistory refers to history written at a reduced scale, studying a single person, village or event closely to reveal wider social patterns. This meaning comes from Ginzburg (1993) in Critical Inquiry.[1]

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event3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs global microhistory1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct person3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Ginzburg, C., Tedeschi, J., & Tedeschi, A. C. (1993). Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It. Critical Inquiry, 20(1), 10-35. https://doi.org/10.1086/448699

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