macrohistory
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
macrohistory (countable and uncountable, plural macrohistories)
- A form of large-scale history dealing with large groups of cultures over very long time periods.
- Antonym: microhistory
- 2008 March 16, Alexander Star, “I Feel Good”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.