Explore Different Microhistories!

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19 participants (25 books)

Overview

Reading microhistories is a great way to understand smaller, discrete topics that don't get much attention in your average history book.

Challenge Books

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Tracy Kidder

14

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

Rose George

15

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Marc Levinson

16

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers by Tom Standage

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers

Tom Standage

17

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

Norman Ohler

18

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

19

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Michael Moss

20

Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Oliver Franklin-Wallis

21

The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston

The Demon in the Freezer

Dark Biology #03

Richard Preston

22

Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire by James Romm

Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire

James Romm

23

A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Neil MacGregor

24

Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky

Polio: An American Story

David M. Oshinsky