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History Beyond the Text: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

History Beyond the Text: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

Barber, Sarah
Peniston-Bird, Corinna

Paperback

Series: Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources

General World HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 0415429625
ISBN13: 9780415429627
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 26 2008
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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, Sarah Barber and Corinna 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 those factors which are unique to, and shared by, the sources covered throughout the book.

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