Research Methods for History / / Lucy Faire, Simon Gunn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Faire, Lucy,; Gunn, Simon,
• MitwirkendeR: Cowman, Krista,; Faire, Lucy,; Gallois, William,; Guldi, Jo,; Gunn, Simon,; Jordanova, Ludmilla,; Kidambi, Prashant,; King, Michelle T.,; Lilley, Keith,; Mayne, Alan,; Morris, R. J.,; Nicholson, Bob,; Porter, Catherine,; Strange, Julie-Marie,; Thomson, Alistair,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities : RMAH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations

A wide-ranging critical survey of methods for historical research at all levelsHistorians 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 His...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures and Tables
• Preface to the Second Edition
• 1. Introduction: Why Bother with Method?
• Part 1. The Essentials
• 2. Working With/In the Archives
• 3. Approaching Visual Materials
• 4. Material Culture
• 5. Landscape and Place
• Part 2. Researching Individuals and Groups
• 6. Collective Biography
• 7. Life Stories and Historical Analysis
• Part 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
• 8. GIS, Spatial Technologies and Digital Mapping
• 9. Document to Database and Spreadsheet
• 10. Digital Research
• Part 4. Deciphering Meanings
• 11. Reading Language as a Historical Source
• 12. Analysing Behaviour as Performance
• Part 5. Rethinking Categories
• 13. Ethics and Historical Research
• 14. Time, Temporality and History
• Notes on Contributors
• Index