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Lädt ... Werkstatt des Historikers: Eine Einführung in die historischen Methoden (Uni-Taschenbücher S)von Martha C. Howell
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. From Reliable Sources is the sort of dull-but-worthy book that final year history undergraduates or first year history graduate students should probably read at some point. It's a basic introduction to problems of historical methodology, the development of history as an academic field, important historians, and so on. I didn't find it very engaging—the prose is a little leaden, it's a tad dated (it was published in 2001), there's nothing here that was particularly new to me, and (while perhaps unsurprisingly, given that it was written by two medievalists) people who work in subaltern studies fields will probably be dissatisfied with it (awful lot of dead white guy history/historians). People who are more at the beginning of their studies might find it more useful, however, though I think it would be more useful for them if paired with discussion about it. Such a work, after all, is more abstract/theoretical than about how historians work on a practical level—the "process" they describe here for how historians work (gather sources, decide on the reliability of each source, construct narrative from there) is surely more the ideal than how I've ever observed someone work. The first three chapters are great. They discuss how to analyze sources. Chapter four is a bit off track, as they delve into philosophy of language. Chapter 5 is decent, as it tends back toward practical matters. The extensive bibliography is excellent. This is written for historians to do history. If you are seeking a leisure read, move on. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
From reliable sources is an introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus is on the basics of source criticism and is a guide for all students of history and for anyone who must extract meaning from written and unwritten sources. Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier explore the methods employed by historians to establish the reliability of materials; how they choose, authenticate, decode, compare, and, finally, interpret those sources. Illustrating their discussion with examples from the distant past as well as more contemporary events, they pay particular attention to recent information media, such as television, film, and videotape. The authors do not subscribe to the positivist belief that the historian can attain objective and total knowledge of the past. Instead, they argue that each generation of historians develops its own perspective, and that our understanding of the past is constantly reshaped by the historian and the world he or she inhabits. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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All in all, even at a graduate level (I read this for undergraduate, pre-senior thesis) this book would be a bit much, a bit too specialized - and in some ways too archaic. I will be sticking with the simpler but much more educational Writing History: A Guide for Students by William Kelleher Storey. ( )