The Historian's Toolbox
eBook - ePub

The Historian's Toolbox

A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History

  1. 244 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Historian's Toolbox

A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History

About this book

Now in its fifth edition, The Historian's Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offering an overview of the field and techniques for reading and writing about history.

The fifth edition expands the selection of tools available to students entering the workshop of history. These include new chapters on digital history, Indigenous peoples, and gender history and new sections on the Voynich manuscript, LGBTQ+ history, slavery, and a historian who survived the war in Ukraine. The book has been fully updated to address the possibilities and limits of computerized approaches to doing history, with careful attention paid to the benefits and controversies of artificial intelligence, chatbots, and the internet. It demonstrates the continuing relevance of history in a cacophonous world of misinformation and censorship, emphasizing critical thinking, facts, and evidence as valuable means of understanding the past and shaping the future.

Engaging and accessible, this volume is ideal for undergraduate courses in historiography and historical methods.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032763873
eBook ISBN
9781040125144
Edition
5
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Illustrations, Figures, and Tables
  8. History as Fun
  9. Part 1 The Craft of History
  10. Part 2 The Tools of History
  11. Part 3 The Relevance of History
  12. Glossary
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index