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Microhistory

Microhistory is the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (most often a single event, community of a village, family or person). In its ambition, however, microhistory can be distinguished from a simple case study insofar as microhistory aspires to "[ask] large questions in small places", to use the definition given by Charles Joyner ...more

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World's Imagination
A History of Women in 101 Objects
The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
The World According to Color: A Cultural History
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
Salt: A World History
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSay Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Library Book by Susan OrleanWhy We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Fascinating Non-Fiction
132 books — 26 voters
1421 by Gavin Menzies1434 by Gavin MenziesThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Holy Bible by AnonymousMein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Worst historical non-fiction
39 books — 38 voters

H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanWesley the Owl by Stacey O'BrienThe Wild Birds by Emily StrelowThe Life of Birds by David Attenborough
Books for Bird Lovers
521 books — 206 voters



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