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Microhistory vs Macrohistory - What's the difference?

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Macrohistory is a related term of microhistory.



As nouns the difference between microhistory and macrohistory

is that microhistory is the study of the past on a small scale, such as an individual neighborhood or town, as a case study for general trends while macrohistory is a form of large-scale history dealing with large groups of cultures over very long time periods.

microhistory

English

Noun

  • (history) The study of the past on a small scale, such as an individual neighborhood or town, as a case study for general trends
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 13, author=Daphne Merkin, title=Dame of the British Interior, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=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 English invention, circa 1767. }}

    Derived terms

    *microhistorian *microhistorical *microhistorically

    macrohistory

    English

    Noun

  • A form of large-scale history dealing with large groups of cultures over very long time periods.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 16, author=Alexander Star, title=I Feel Good, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=These days, it’s chiefly nonhistorians like Jared Diamond and Tim Flannery who seek to trace the long arc of the species and write macrohistory in a scientific key. }}

    Related terms

    * macrohistorian * macrohistorical * macrohistorically * microhistory