Historical Research

Author : Marcel Fortin,Jennifer Bonnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1552387089

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Historical GIS Research in Canada by Marcel Fortin,Jennifer Bonnell Pdf

Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in Canada are few and publications that discuss these projects directly even fewer. This book brings together case studies of HGIS projects in historical geography, social and cultural history, and environmental history from Canada's diverse regions. Projects include religion and ethnicity, migration, indigenous land practices, rebuilding a nineteenth-century neighborhood, and working with Google Earth.

Author : Bill Mcdowell,William H. McDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 1138836923

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Historical Research by Bill Mcdowell,William H. McDowell Pdf

Appropriate for undergraduate history students researching and writing dissertations, and postgraduate research students. This is the first practical guide to cover the various stages of a history research project, from the selection of the topic and the organization and interpretation of source material, through to the completion of the written-up record.

Author : C. G. Crump
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317270720

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History and Historical Research by C. G. Crump Pdf

Aimed at students of history, this volume, originally published in 1928, examines the issues of impartiality and objectivity in the study of history. It also discusses the skills necessary for any would-be historian including the knowledge of foreign languages, the use of sources and note-taking.

Author : Zachary Schrag
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691215488

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The Princeton Guide to Historical Research by Zachary Schrag Pdf

The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first century The Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries. Zachary Schrag begins by explaining how to ask good questions and then guides readers step-by-step through all phases of historical research, from narrowing a topic and locating sources to taking notes, crafting a narrative, and connecting one's work to existing scholarship. He shows how researchers extract knowledge from the widest range of sources, such as government documents, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, images, interviews, and datasets. He demonstrates how to use archives and libraries, read sources critically, present claims supported by evidence, tell compelling stories, and much more. Featuring a wealth of examples that illustrate the methods used by seasoned experts, The Princeton Guide to Historical Research reveals that, however varied the subject matter and sources, historians share basic tools in the quest to understand people and the choices they made. Offers practical step-by-step guidance on how to do historical research, taking readers from initial questions to final publication Connects new digital technologies to the traditional skills of the historian Draws on hundreds of examples from a broad range of historical topics and approaches Shares tips for researchers at every skill level

Author : Sreedharan
Publisher : South Indian Studies
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9788190592802

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A Manual of Historical Research Methodology by Sreedharan Pdf

A book providing practical help to students at the graduate and postgraduate levels. What is given in the book is precise, clear and solid. The book's coverage and comprehensiveness, its scientific, analytical and critical treatment, its near perfect organization and arrangement, its clarity and easy methods of reference will make it a useful compendium for students and teachers. A teacher and lover of history the author has brought out philosophical, scientific, and ideological and linguistic perspectives to bear on the subject. Whether a student or teacher or a general reader, the manual can be expected to develop a healthy interest in history. The author has brought to bear philosophical, scientific, ideological and linguistic perspectives to bear on the subject.

Author : Elizabeth Ann Danto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199715599

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Historical Research by Elizabeth Ann Danto Pdf

What, exactly, was the Charity Organization Society? Was it a cluster of affluent women imposing their moral propriety on the poor in the early 20th Century? Or was it the first concerted effort to professionalize previously random, subjective allocations of benefits and entitlements? This book will help researchers explore systematically such fascinating questions and debates in social work and social welfare history. Mastering how to pose historical questions is as essential as finding the answers. This book, from its wide-ranging coverage of historiographic theory to detailed guidelines for conducting oral history and archival research, offers clear and practical research tools: how to design a study, select primary sources, understand the vocabulary of archives, determine useful secondary sources, and analyze them all. The book also features a guide to archives and special collections that details their holdings, access and locations, and research grants - essential knowledge for any researcher. The thrill of stumbling across unexplored data in the stacks of a library is notorious. Now, this clearly written pocket guide will help established scholars as well as doctoral students get the most out of historical data.

Author : Penny Tinkler
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446291528

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Using Photographs in Social and Historical Research by Penny Tinkler Pdf

Sophisticated, original and comprehensive, this book investigates photographic research practices and the conceptual and theoretical issues that underpin them. Using international case studies and ′behind the scenes′ interviews, Penny Tinkler sets out research practices and explores the possibilities, and challenges, of working with different methods and photographic sources. The book guides the reader through all aspects of doing photographic research including practical issues and ethical considerations. Key topics include: - Working with images - Generating photos in research - Managing large archives and digital databases - Reviewing personal photos - Photo-elicitation interviews Written in a clear, accessible style, this dynamic book is essential reading for students and researchers working with photographs in history and the social sciences.

Author : Mario Carretero,Stefan Berger,Maria Grever
Publisher : Springer
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137529084

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Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education by Mario Carretero,Stefan Berger,Maria Grever Pdf

This volume comprises a broad interdisciplinary examination of the many different approaches by which contemporary scholars record our history. The editors provide a comprehensive overview through thirty-eight chapters divided into four parts: a) Historical Culture and Public Uses of History; b) The Appeal of the Nation in History Education of Postcolonial Societies; c) Reflections on History Learning and Teaching; d) Educational Resources: Curricula, Textbooks and New Media. This unique text integrates contributions of researchers from history, education, collective memory, museum studies, heritage, social and cognitive psychology, and other social sciences, stimulating an interdisciplinary dialogue. Contributors come from various countries of Northern and Southern America, Europe and Asia, providing an international perspective that does justice to the complexity of this field of study. The Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education provides state-of-the-art research, focussing on how citizens and societies make sense of the past through different ways of representing it.

Author : Ian N. Gregory,Paul S. Ell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139467711

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Historical GIS by Ian N. Gregory,Paul S. Ell Pdf

Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell's study, first published in 2007, comprehensively defines this field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form of database in which every item of data is linked to a spatial location. This technology offers unparalleled opportunities to add insight and rejuvenate historical research through the ability to identify and use the geographical characteristics of data. Historical GIS introduces the basic concepts and tools underpinning GIS technology, describing and critically assessing the visualisation, analytical and e-science methodologies that it enables and examining key scholarship where GIS has been used to enhance research debates. The result is a clear agenda charting how GIS will develop as one of the most important approaches to scholarship in historical geography.

Author : Mairi Maclean,Stewart R. Clegg,Roy Suddaby,Charles Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000259520

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Historical Organization Studies by Mairi Maclean,Stewart R. Clegg,Roy Suddaby,Charles Harvey Pdf

We are now entering a new phase in the establishment of historical organization studies as a distinctive methodological paradigm within the broad field of organization studies. This book serves both as a landmark in the development of the field and as a key reference tool for researchers and students. For two decades, organization theorists have emphasized the need for more and better research recognizing the importance of the past in shaping the present and future. By historicizing organizational research, the contexts and forces bearing upon organizations will be more fully recognized, and analyses of organizational dynamics improved. But how, precisely, might a traditionally empirically oriented discipline such as history be incorporated into a theoretically oriented discipline such as organization studies? This book evaluates the current state of play, advances it and identifies the possibilities the new emergent field offers for the future. In addition to providing an important work of reference on the subject for researchers, the book can be used to introduce management and organizational history to a student audience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The book is a valuable source for wider reading, providing rich reference material in tutorials across organizational studies, or as recommended or required reading on courses with a connection to business or management history. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Tony Gibbons,Emily Sutherland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136637728

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Integrity and Historical Research by Tony Gibbons,Emily Sutherland Pdf

There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity, what exactly do they mean? Integrity and Historical Research examines this question in detail. The first chapter discusses the concept of integrity. The chapters that follow reflect on this philosophical treatment in the light of fiction and film that deals with history in a number of ways. How should writers and filmmakers use lives? Can, and may, people who are now dead and who may have lived long ago, be defamed? The authors include academics, historians, social historians, medievalists, oral historians, literary theorists, historical novelists and script writers. They examine the theoretical influences and practical choices that involve and concern writers and filmmakers who rely on historical research. The desire to be accurate may often conflict with the need to produce a work that goes beyond the mere depiction of events in order to excite the interest of readers and to hold that interest. At the same time there is a developing emphasis on historians, to write well in clear, accessible prose, which may involve using the novelists’ techniques. How much license may be given to writers of fiction and filmmakers in their depiction of historical characters and events? This book begins to answer this question, while inviting further discussion.

Author : Lucy Faire
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474408745

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Research Methods for History by Lucy Faire Pdf

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.

Author : William Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Lancashire (England)
ISBN : OCLC:1180953409

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The Victoria History of the Counties of England by William Page Pdf

Author : Charles Harvey,Jon Press
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349243921

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Databases in Historical Research by Charles Harvey,Jon Press Pdf

This textbook builds knowledge progressively and sympathetically, from first principles to advanced topics. The authors explain how to take a project from the specification stage to completion, and offer guidance on choice of approach, techniques, hardware and software. Key ideas are presented in a readily understandable form through the use of diagrams and summary boxes, and the text is brought to life through the use of case studies. An ideal handbook for the undergraduate, postgraduate and professional historian embarking on a dissertation or historical research.

Author : Tanya Fitzgerald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811023611

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Handbook of Historical Studies in Education by Tanya Fitzgerald Pdf

This book offers an in‐depth historiographical and comparative analysis of prominent theoretical and methodological debates in the field. Across each of the sections, contributors will draw on specific case studies to illustrate the origins, debates and tensions in the field and overview new trends, directions and developments. Each section includes an introduction that provides an overview of the theme and the overall emphasis within the section. In addition, each section has a concluding chapter that offers a critical and comparative analysis of the national case studies presented. As a Handbook, the emphasis is on deeper consideration of key issues rather than a more superficial and broader sweep. The book offers researchers, postgraduate and higher degree students as well as those teaching in this field a definitive text that identifies and debates key historiographical and methodological issues. The intent is to encourage comparative historiographical perspectives of the nominated issues that overview the main theoretical and methodological debates and to propose new directions for the field.