Research Methods for History (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Faire, Lucy; Gunn, Simon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Historians have become increasingly sensitive to social and cultural theory since the 1980s, yet the actual methods by which research is carried out in History have been largely taken for granted. Research Methods for History encourages those researching the past to think creatively about the wide range of methods currently in use, to understand how these methods are used and what historical insights they can provide. This updated new edition has been expanded to cover not only sources and methods that are well-established in History, such as archival research, but also those that have developed recently, such as the impact of digital history research. The themes of the different chapters have been selected to reflect new trends in the subject, including landscape studies, material culture and ethics. Every chapter presents new insights and perspectives and will open researchers' minds to the expanding possibilities of historical research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474408745
• Artikelnr.: 49274079

Autorenporträt

Lucy Faire is Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester. She specialises in the history of home and leisure. She is the co-author with Mark Jancovich of The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption (BFI, 2003). Simon Gunn is Professor of Urban History in the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester. He has taught and studied research methods in Historical Studies for a number of years. His publications include History and Cultural Theory (Longman, 2006) and The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class (MUP, 2000). He is joint editor of the Cambridge University Press journal, Urban History and co-editor with James Vernon of The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (University of California Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Preface to the Second Edition 1.
Introduction: Why Bother with Method?
Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire Part 1
The Essentials 2.
Working With/In the Archives
Michelle T. King 3.
Approaching Visual Materials
Ludmilla Jordanova 4.
Material Culture
Alan Mayne 5.
Landscape and Place
Jo Guldi Part 2
Researching Individuals and Groups 6.
Collective Biography
Krista Cowman; 7.
Life Stories and Historical Analysis
Alistair Thomson Part 3
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis 8.
GIS
Spatial Technologies and Digital Mapping
Keith D. Lilley and Catherine Porter 9.
Document to Database and Spreadsheet
R. J. Morris 10.
Digital Research
Bob Nicholson Part 4
Deciphering Meanings 11.
Reading Language as a Historical Source
Julie-Marie Strange 12.
Analysing Behaviour as Performance
Simon Gunn Part 5
Rethinking Categories 13.
Ethics and Historical Research
William Gallois 14.
Time
Temporality and History
Prashant Kidambi Notes on Contributors Index