Chriss
This was a surprise find in a used book store and an absolute treasure for historians who write I have learned uite a bit about linguistics and method appealing to the audience with boring facts or flowery rhetoric So much to think about and I will be using this book as a reference from now on
Since little serious historical research can be done without an adequate library, much of the actual note-taking and writing has to take place before the work is submitted for the criticism of the class, but in class, subjects, methods, tools, and the theoretical problems of the students are discussed as the occasions arise. Historical method Historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write histories in the form of accounts of the past. The question of the nature, and even the possibility, of a sound historical method is raised in the philosophy of history as a.
anis Ahmad
ni buku wajib waktu dulu kuliah hehehe agak membosankan sih tapi mau ga mau harus dibaca walaupun pada dasarnya sangat bermanfaat thanks louis
Jim
Years in grad school This was the best most usable description of the historical method a bit dated bit full of practical information
Naufal Shidqi
Sangat membantu Dalam mengerti memahami arti Sejarah sesungguhnya
Romeo Laspiñas Jr.
I cant even read this book?
Karylle Lyca
Cant open
Christopher Geonzon
I want to read this with understanding
Car Issa
Good
Iis Afriyanti
This book has been recommended by one of History lecturers from my previous campus and to be my dissertation reference to understand how historians do their research and what they want
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Since 1933 I have collaborated with various colleagues in the teaching of a 'Laboratory Course in Historical Method.' The word 'laboratory' in the title of that course is taken seriously. Each student is expected to do as much of his work as possible in the presence of the others and of the professor. Since little serious historical research can be done without an adequate library, much of the actual note-taking and writing has to take place before the work is submitted for the criticism of the class, but in class, subjects, methods, tools, and the theoretical problems of the students are discussed as the occasions arise. Neither questions regarding causality, frames of reference, and the philosophy of history nor analyses of the major controversies of historical interpretation are avoided, but a conscious effort is made to subordinate them to concrete ones such as how to choose a subject, how to use a library, how to take notes, when to quote, when to use a footnote, how to evaluate evidence, how to tell a good work of history from a bad one, how to prepare a manuscript, and how to write a historical composition.
The available textbooks on historical method, despite their sometimes obvious merit, rarely meet the needs of students in a course of this nature. With some notable exceptions, they are not laboratory manuals. They deal too abstractly with the practical questions to which the beginning student wants answers. Instead of attempting to tell him what sort of notes are worth taking or when not to use a footnote or how to avoid irrelevance in his-
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328 pages
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
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Place of publication: New York
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Publication year: 1963