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Verbal·Craft and Structure·Words in Context
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Microhistories tackle “big questions” about broad phenomena via narrow subjects. The questions they ask are often       . Distinct strains of microhistory emerged at different times in Italy, Iceland, and elsewhere, for example, and while microhistories of the 1980s reflected the era’s interest in labor history, the “global turn” in recent historiography sparked a wave of globally contextualized microhistories.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A
peripheral to the practitioner’s discipline
B
contingent on the practitioner’s milieu
C
indicative of the practitioner’s ingenuity
D
controversial within the practitioner’s specialty