A Practical Guide to Studying History (eBook, PDF)

Skills and Approaches
Redaktion: Loughran, Tracey

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

*** PROSE Award Winner (2018) in the Textbook/Humanities Category *** A Practical Guide to Studying History is the perfect guide for students embarking on degree-level study. The book: - introduces students to the concepts of historical objectivity, frameworks and debate - explains the differences in aims, methods and audiences for different types of history - explores the relationship between the skills developed during a history undergraduate degree and the practice of professional history - helps students develop the practical skills required to read historical writing critically, write good essays, and participate in historical debates - includes study questions, further reading lists, text boxes, maps and illustrations The book incorporates case studies taken from a range of regions and periods, reflecting the varied nature of historical study at university, and helps students to understand history, and to practice it successfully: it is an indispensable guide to studying history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472523426
• Artikelnr.: 47401223

Autorenporträt

Tracey Loughran is Professor of History at the University of Essex, UK. She is the author of Shell-Shock and Medical Culture in First World War Britain (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)
Part I: Framing Histories
Introduction: Frameworks and Perspectives - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff
University, UK)
1. Nations - Mark Williams (Cardiff University, UK)
2. Periodization - Shaun Tougher (Cardiff University, UK)
3. Comparative Histories - Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln, UK)
4. Biography - Toby Thacker (Cardiff University, UK)
5. People's History - Martin Wright (Cardiff University, UK)
6. Identities - Siobhan McGurk (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Part II: The Historian's Craft
Introduction - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)
7. Historical Research - Garthine Walker (Cardiff University, UK)
8. Evidence and Interpretation - Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University, UK)
9. Archives - Federica Ferlanti (Cardiff University, UK)
10. Documents, Editions and Translations - Helen J. Nicholson (Cardiff
University, UK)
11. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Sources for Essays - Keir Waddington
(Cardiff University, UK)
12. Reading and Writing History - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)
Part III: History in Public
Introduction - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)
13. History in Schools - Lloyd Bowen (Cardiff University, UK)
14. History and Policy - Matthew Grant (University of Essex, UK)
15. Historical Novels - Tracey Loughran (Cardiff University, UK)
16. History and Heritage - Stephanie Ward (Cardiff University, UK)
17. Exhibiting History - Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway, University of
London, UK)
18. Taking History into the World - Dave Wyatt (Cardiff University, UK)
Index