History Beyond the Text: A Students Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources)

History Beyond the Text: A Students Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources)
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224
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0415429625
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Arrow Books
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Разное

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Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches. In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Barber and Peniston-Bird bring together chapters from historical specialists in the fields of fine art, photography, film, oral history, architecture, virtual sources, music, cartoons, landscape and material culture to explain why, when and how these less traditional sources can be used. Each chapter introduces the reader to the source, suggests the methodological and theoretical questions historians should keep in mind when using it, and provides case studies to illustrate best practice in analysis and interpretation. Pulling these disparate sources together, the introduction discusses the nature of historical sources and...

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