Why 'Micro-history' Matters?
Courtesy: www.nepaliheadlines.com When Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history in 1991, he probably did not literally mean, history was going to be an invalid discipline henceforth. He meant, gone were the eras of power-driven discourses, that often made history an account of the warring superpowers—USA and USSR in his case—and time following the collapse of USSR would belong to smaller nations, and history would have to deal with smaller power centers. To take Fukuyama further down the lane, history would now descend the ladder of power, until it comes to the level of the European ‘others’ i.e. nations whose role and presence were not considered formidable in the world history before the nineties. It was obvious during Fukuyama days, that many nations did not count much in the global politics. During the world wars—both the first and the second—some of the smaller and underdeveloped nations mattered, because they were the playgrounds for the European warmongers. Et...