Methods and Skills of History A Practical Guide

Name: Methods and Skills of History A Practical Guide
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ISBN: 9780882952727

ISBN-10: 0882952722

ISBN-13: 9780882952727

Edition: 3rd 2010

Authors: Conal Furay, Michael J. Salevouris

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Like its predecessors, the third edition of one of our most popular texts, The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide, is a dynamic text/workbook that combines theory with "hands on" practice, providing engaging essays, documents, and exercises designed to make history more meaningful and accessible to student readers—whether they are majoring in history, taking a history course as an elective, or simply reading history on their own—as well as strengthen their critical-thinking and communication skills.While this third edition retains the essence of its highly successful predecessor in the form of its practical, timely advice on research and writing and “field-tested” exercises,…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/22/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 8.25" wide x 11.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface



Historical Thinking



The Uses of History


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



The Nature of History: History as Reconstruction


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



Historical Thinking: Continuity and Change


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



Historical Thinking: Multiple Casualty in History


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



Historical Thinking: Context


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



Confronting the Historical Account



Libraries: Real and Virtual


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



Reading History


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



History on Film


Exercise



Doing History



Evidence


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



Oral History and Statistics


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



Interpretation


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



Writing: The History Paper


Exercises Set A


Exercises Set B



Historiography



The History of History


Exercise



History and the Disciplines


Exercises



Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri River: Documents



Source References and Bibliographies



Sample Oral History Release Form


Suggestions for Further Reading


Index