The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish - Softcover

Land, Isaac

 
9783031684562: The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3031684567 ISBN 13: 9783031684562
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

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Complete with practical advice and helpful guidance, this book is an approachable manual perfect for budding historians at all levels. Its worksheets, which focus on framing realistic goals and heading off common misunderstandings, will aid independent work and make check-ins with the advisor more candid and productive. Drawing on examples from six continents, as well as primary sources ranging from cuneiform tablets to emails, students will learn about the effective deployment of quotations, footnotes, maps, graphs, images, and data visualizations. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on how the student can formulate, support, and revise their claims in a historical project with a skeptical reader in mind.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Isaac Land is Emeritus Professor of History at Indiana State University, USA, where he received two university-wide teaching awards. From 2018-2021, he served on the American Historical Association’s Raymond J. Cunningham Prize awards committee, which recognizes excellent undergraduate research and writing. The author of War, Nationalism, and the British Sailor, 1750–1850 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), he also co-edits the Palgrave Macmillan series Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History and the Sage journal Coastal Studies & Society.

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Complete with practical advice and helpful guidance, this book is an approachable manual perfect for budding historians at all levels. Its worksheets, which focus on framing realistic goals and heading off common misunderstandings, will aid independent work and make check-ins with the advisor more candid and productive. Drawing on examples from six continents, as well as primary sources ranging from cuneiform tablets to emails, students will learn about the effective deployment of quotations, footnotes, maps, graphs, images, and data visualizations. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on how the student can formulate, support, and revise their claims in a historical project with a skeptical reader in mind.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3031684567
ISBN 13 
9783031684562
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
316
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