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1. What do you understand by 'microhistory"? Describe the historians and their worksrelated to this tradition of history-writing. |
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Answer» Microhistoryis the intensivehistoricalinvestigation of a well-defined smaller unit of research (most often a single event, the community of a village, or an individual). In its ambition, however, microhistory can be distinguished from a simplecase studyinsofar as microhistory aspires to "[ask] large questions in small places", to use the definition given by Charles Joyner. |
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