Reading Primary Sources

The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History
Herausgeber: Dobson, Miriam; Ziemann, Benjamin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now in its second edition, Reading Primary Sources explores the varied traditions in source-criticism and, through specific examples provided by the contributors, illustrates how primary sources can be read and used in historical research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9781138393189
• ISBN-10: 1138393185
• Artikelnr.: 69949379

Autorenporträt

Miriam Dobson is Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. Her first book Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin was published in 2009 and she is currently completing a monograph, provisionally entitled Unorthodox Communities in the Cold War: Protestants, Secularisation, and Soviet Atheism, 1945-1985. Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Sheffield. His most recent publications include Contested Commemorations: Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture (2013) and Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War: Killing, Dying, Surviving (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Reading primary sources: contexts and approaches 1. Understanding
history: hermeneutics and source-criticism in historical scholarship 2.
Reading tests after the linguistic turn: approaches from literary studies
and their implications Part 2: Varieties of primary sources and their
interpretation 3. Letters 4. Surveillance reports 5. Court files 6. Social
surveys 7. Memoranda 8. Diaries 9. Novels 10. Autobiography 11. Newspapers
12. Speeches 13. Testimony