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Taxonomy vs Microhistory - What's the difference?

taxonomy | microhistory |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and microhistory

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while microhistory is (history) the study of the past on a small scale, such as an individual neighborhood or town, as a case study for general trends.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    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