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From Reliable Sources
An Introduction to Historical Methods
Taschenbuch von Martha Howell (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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From Reliable Sources is a lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus on the basics of source criticism, rather than on how to find references or on the process of writing, makes it an invaluable 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.

A substantially revised and updated edition of Prevenier's Uit goede bron, originally published in Belgium and now in its seventh edition, From Reliable Sources also provides a survey of western historiography and an extensive research bibliography.

From Reliable Sources is a lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus on the basics of source criticism, rather than on how to find references or on the process of writing, makes it an invaluable 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.

A substantially revised and updated edition of Prevenier's Uit goede bron, originally published in Belgium and now in its seventh edition, From Reliable Sources also provides a survey of western historiography and an extensive research bibliography.

Über den Autor

Martha Howell is Professor of History at Columbia University. Her previous books include The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries. Walter Prevenier is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Promised Lands: The Low Countries under Burgundian Rule.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. The Source: The Basis of Our Knowledge about the Past

A. What Is a Source?

B. Source Typologies, Their Evolution and Complementarity

C. The Impact of Communication and Information Technology on the Production of Sources

D. Storing and Delivering InformationII. Technical Analysis of Sources

A. Clio's Laboratory
Paleography

Diplomatics

Archaeology

Statistics

Additional Technical Tools
B. Source Criticism: The Great Tradition
The "Genealogy" of the Document

Genesis of a Document

The "Originality" of the Document

Interpretation of the Document

Authorial Authority

Competence of the Observer

The Trustworthiness of the Observer
III. Historical Interpretation: The Traditional Basics

A. Comparison of Sources

B. Establishing Evidentiary Satisfaction

C. The "Facts" That MatterIV. New Interpretive Approaches

A. Interdisciplinarity
The Social Sciences

The Humanities
B. The Politics of History Writing
The Annales
The "New Left" and New Histories

The New Cultural History
V. The Nature of Historical Knowledge

A. Change and ContinuityB. Causality
Causal Factors (Religious Ideology, Clericalism, and Anticlericalism; Social and Economic Factors; Biology and "Race"; Environment; Science, Technology, and Inventions; Power; Public Opinion and the Mass Media)

The Role of the Individual
C. History Today
The Problem of Objectivity

The Status of the "Fact"
Research BibliographyIndex

Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780801485602
ISBN-10: 0801485606
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Howell, Martha
Prevenier, Walter
Übersetzung: Howell, Martha C.
Hersteller: Cornell University Press
Maße: 228 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Martha Howell (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.04.2001
Gewicht: 0,308 kg
Artikel-ID: 120970816
Über den Autor

Martha Howell is Professor of History at Columbia University. Her previous books include The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries. Walter Prevenier is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Promised Lands: The Low Countries under Burgundian Rule.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. The Source: The Basis of Our Knowledge about the Past

A. What Is a Source?

B. Source Typologies, Their Evolution and Complementarity

C. The Impact of Communication and Information Technology on the Production of Sources

D. Storing and Delivering InformationII. Technical Analysis of Sources

A. Clio's Laboratory
Paleography

Diplomatics

Archaeology

Statistics

Additional Technical Tools
B. Source Criticism: The Great Tradition
The "Genealogy" of the Document

Genesis of a Document

The "Originality" of the Document

Interpretation of the Document

Authorial Authority

Competence of the Observer

The Trustworthiness of the Observer
III. Historical Interpretation: The Traditional Basics

A. Comparison of Sources

B. Establishing Evidentiary Satisfaction

C. The "Facts" That MatterIV. New Interpretive Approaches

A. Interdisciplinarity
The Social Sciences

The Humanities
B. The Politics of History Writing
The Annales
The "New Left" and New Histories

The New Cultural History
V. The Nature of Historical Knowledge

A. Change and ContinuityB. Causality
Causal Factors (Religious Ideology, Clericalism, and Anticlericalism; Social and Economic Factors; Biology and "Race"; Environment; Science, Technology, and Inventions; Power; Public Opinion and the Mass Media)

The Role of the Individual
C. History Today
The Problem of Objectivity

The Status of the "Fact"
Research BibliographyIndex

Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780801485602
ISBN-10: 0801485606
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Howell, Martha
Prevenier, Walter
Übersetzung: Howell, Martha C.
Hersteller: Cornell University Press
Maße: 228 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Martha Howell (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.04.2001
Gewicht: 0,308 kg
Artikel-ID: 120970816
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