microcivilization

plural microcivilizations

1. A tiny civilization.

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   Yet according to Robb, who has written biographies of Victor Hugo, Honor de Balzac and Arthur Rimbaud, these microcivilizations were not formless planetoids waiting to be swallowed by a giant state, and their inhabitants didnt constitute a shapeless mass of human raw material, waiting to be processed by the huge, mutating machine of political interference and turned into the people conveniently known as the French.

   2007 November 4, Caroline Weber, “Tour de France”, in New York Times