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1 online resource (213 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations and Tables; History as Fun; PART I: The Craft of History; 1. The Past; Notes; For Further Reading; 2. Story; For Further Reading; 3. History; Notes; For Further Reading; 4. Metahistory; Notes; 5. Antihistory; Notes; 6. The Present; Notes; 7. The Future; Notes; For Further Reading; PART II: The Tools of History; 8. Doing History: An Overview; 8.1 Choosing a Good Paper Topic; 8.2 Reading History; 8.3 Taking Notes; 8.4 How to Write a Good History Paper; 9. Sources and Evidence |
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9.1 Primary and Secondary Sources9.2 Documents; 9.3 Maps; 9.4 Artifacts; 9.5 Images; 9.6 Cliometrics: Using Statistics to Prove a Point; 9.7 Genetic Evidence; 10. Credit and Acknowledgment; 10.1 Notes; 10.2 Bibliography; 10.3 Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism; 10.4 Professional Plagiarism: How Not to Do History; Notes; 11. Narrative and Explanation; 11.1 The Language of the Historian; 11.2 Chronology; 11.3 Narrative; 11.4 Argument; 11.5 Causation; 11.6 The Reasons Why; 12. Interpretation; 12.1 Reviewing History; 12.2 Historical Revision; 12.3 Historiography |
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12.4 Women's History: The Leo Frank Case13. Speculation; 13.1 Historical Speculation; 13.2 History as Fiction; 13.3 Conspiracies; 13.4 Forgeries and Facsimiles; For Further Reading; 13.5 Fiction as History; 13.6 Film as History: Fact or Fiction?; For Further Reading; PART III: The Relevance of History; 14. Everyday History; 14.1 Studying Ordinary People; 14.2 Everyone's a Historian; 14.3 Local History. A Tale of Two Towns; Further Reading; 15. Oral History; 15.1 The Perils of Memory; 15.2 Interviewees and Interviewers; 15.3 Techniques of Oral History; Notes; 16. Material Culture |
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16.1 Spirits in the Material World16.2 Studying Material Culture; For Further Reading; 16.3 Provenance and Ownership: Tracing Stolen Art; Notes; For Further Reading; 17. Public History; 17.1 History beyond the Ivory Tower; 17.2 History and the Public; Notes; 18. Event Analysis; 18.1 History in Real Time; Notes; 19. New Tools: GIS and CSI; 19.1 Spatial History: Geographic Information Systems; For Further Reading; 19.2 Killer App: Crime Scene Investigation Forensics; For Further Reading; 20. History on the Internet; 20.1 Using the Internet: Promises and Pitfalls; 20.2 Wikipedia and "Wikiality." |
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20.3 Blogging the Past (and Present)Notes; 21. TMI: Too Much Information; 21.1 History as Information; For Further Reading; 21.2 Hacking History: The Deluge of WikiLeaks; For Further Reading; 21.3 Private Parts: The Intrusion of History; For Further Reading; 21.4 Twitter; 22. Epilogue: The End of History?; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
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Sources and Evidence 9.1 Primary and Secondary Sources Primary Source: The Wannsee Protocol (1942) Secondary Source: Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (2000) Summary 9.2 Documents A Revolutionary War Ancestor's Pension Application (1832) 9.3 Maps Sebastian Munster's Map of the Americas, c. 1540 9.4 Artifacts Digging Ancient Moscow 9.5 Images Sharpshooter's Home or Photographer's Studio? 9.6 Cliometrics: Using Statistics to Prove a Point The Black Population of Colonial America 9.7 Genetic Evidence Welsh and Basques, Relatively Speaking Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings--What's My Line? 10 |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000762150 |
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1000762157 |
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9781000762518 |
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1000762513 |
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