The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide

by Furay, Conal

• ISBN13: 9780882959825
• ISBN10: 0882959824
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Harlan Davidson

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I Historical Thinking	1	(76)
The Uses of History	3	(8)
Exercises Set A	6	(2)
Exercises Set B	8	(3)
The Nature of History: History as Reconstruction	11	(16)
Exercises Set A	17	(5)
Exercises Set B	22	(5)
Continuity and Change	27	(14)
Exercises Set A	32	(5)
Exercises Set B	37	(4)
It's Never That Simple: Multiple-Causality in History	41	(22)
Exercises Set A	49	(7)
Exercises Set B	56	(7)
Thinking in Time: Context	63	(14)
Exercises Set A	68	(4)
Exercises Set B	72	(5)
Part II Confronting the Historical Account	77	(64)
Libraries: Real and Virtual	79	(26)
Exercises Set A	88	(9)
Exercises Set B	97	(8)
Reading History	105	(26)
Exercises Set A	112	(5)
Exercises Set B	117	(14)
History on Film	131	(10)
Exercise	138	(3)
Part III Doing History	141	(86)
Evidence	143	(26)
Exercises Set A	150	(10)
Exercises Set B	160	(9)
Oral History and Statistics	169	(14)
Exercises Set A	176	(3)
Exercises Set B	179	(4)
Interpretation	183	(24)
Exercises Set A	191	(8)
Exercises Set B	199	(8)
Writing the History Paper	207	(20)
Exercises Set A	218	(4)
Exercises Set B	222	(5)
Part IV Historiography	227	(30)
The History of History	229	(14)
Exercise	240	(3)
History and the Disciplines	243	(14)
Exercises	248	(9)
Appendix A Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri River: Documents	257	(6)
Appendix B Oral History: Standards and Practices	263	(4)
Suggestions for Further Reading	267	(4)
Index	271