Research methods for history /

Historians have become increasingly sensitive to social and cultural theory since the 1980s, yet the actual methods by which research is carried out in History have been largely taken for granted. Research Methods for History encourages those researching the past to think creatively about the wide r...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gunn, Simon, 1954- (Editor), Faire, Lucy (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Edition:Second edition
Series:Research methods for the arts and humanities.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1424342
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why bother with method? / Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire
  • Working with/in the archives / Michelle T. King
  • Approaching visual materials / Ludmilla Jordanova
  • Material culture / Alan Mayne
  • Landscape and place / Jo Guldi
  • Collective biography / Krista Cowman
  • Life stories and historical analysis / Alistair Thomson
  • GIS, spatial technologies and digital mapping / Keith Lilley and Catherine Porter
  • Document to database and spreadsheet / R.J. Morris
  • Digital research / Bob Nicholson
  • Reading language as a historical source / Julie-Marie Strange
  • Analysing behaviour as performance / Simon Gunn
  • Ethics and historical research / William Gallois
  • Time, temporality and history / Prashant Kidambi