Microhistory

Master Index Post for MHI-03: Historiography (2025–26)

📚 Master Index: MHI-03 – Historiography (2025–26) This post includes links to all completed answers for the IGNOU MHI-03 assignment. Each answer is written in simple, student-friendly language and meets IGNOU guidelines. What do you understand by ‘microhistory’? Describe the historians and their works related to this tradition of history-writing. Discuss the distinctive features of […]

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What do you understand by ‘microhistory’? Describe the historians and their works Related to this tradition of history-writing.

Introduction Microhistory is a method of historical writing that focuses on a small unit of study, such as a single event, individual, community, or locality, to gain deeper insights into larger historical themes. It emerged in the 1970s in Europe as a reaction against traditional macro-level history that emphasized large structures and generalizations. Microhistory attempts

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What do you understand by ‘microhistory’? Describe the historians and their works related to this tradition of history-writing.

Introduction Microhistory is a historiographical approach that focuses on the intensive study of a small unit of research—such as a village, a family, or a single individual—over a limited period. Unlike traditional macro-level histories that emphasize large-scale political or economic events, microhistory investigates the everyday lives and experiences of ordinary people. This methodology emerged in

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