{"product_id":"from-reliable-sources-1","title":"From Reliable Sources","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmong the books designed to teach aspiring historians proper procedures for their work, this volume ranks high....Readers will especially appreciate the care taken to show the link between methodological innovations and the historical contexts in which they occurred.\u003c\/b\u003e―\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Reliable Sources \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMartha 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrating 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA substantially revised and updated edition of Prevenier's \u003ci\u003eUit goede bron\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in Belgium and now in its seventh edition, \u003ci\u003eFrom Reliable Sources \u003c\/i\u003ealso provides a survey of western historiography and an extensive research bibliography.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Martha Howell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615002354044,"sku":"9780801485602","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780801485602_36fed6a5-0415-4ecb-b7b7-bd5e068fdf17.jpg?v=1725620828","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/from-reliable-sources-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}