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The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish
Paperback
ISBN13: 9783031684562
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Dec 23 2024
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 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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