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TitleFrom reliable sources : An Introduction to historical methods / Martha Howel and Walter Prevenier
AuthorHowell, Martha. / Prevenier, Walter.
Call No907.2 HOW
CollectionNon Fiction
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International Standard Book Number 0801435730
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 907.2 HOW
Personal Name Howell, Martha.
Title Statement From reliable sources : An Introduction to historical methods / Martha Howel and Walter Prevenier
Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Physical Description 207p.
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
Summary, Etc. From reliable sources is an introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus is on the basics of source criticism and is a guide for all students of history and for anyone who must extract meaning from written and unwritten sources. Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier explore the methods employed by historians to establish the reliability of materials; how they choose, authenticate, decode, compare, and, finally, interpret those sources. Illustrating their discussion with examples from the distant past as well as more contemporary events, they pay particular attention to recent information media, such as television, film, and videotape. The authors do not subscribe to the positivist belief that the historian can attain objective and total knowledge of the past. Instead, they argue that each generation of historians develops its own perspective, and that our understanding of the past is constantly reshaped by the historian and the world he or she inhabits.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term HISTORIOGRAPHY.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term HISTORY - METHODOLOGY.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term HISTORY - RESEARCH.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term HISTORY - PHILOSOPHY.
Added Entry, Personal Name Prevenier, Walter.