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Thinking About History

by Sarah Maza
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What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.

Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view the nation as the inevitable context for history, and what happens when we move outside those boundaries? What is the relation among popular, academic, and public history, and how should we evaluate sources? What is the difference between description and interpretation, and how do we balance them? Maza provides choice examples in place of definitive answers, and the result is a book that will spark classroom discussion and offer students a view of history as a vibrant, ever-changing field of inquiry that is thoroughly relevant to our daily lives.
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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  • Release date: September 18, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9780226109473
  • File size: 856 KB
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  • ISBN: 9780226109473
  • File size: 856 KB
  • Release date: September 18, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9780226109473
  • File size: 3828 KB
  • Release date: September 18, 2017

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History Nonfiction

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English

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.

Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view the nation as the inevitable context for history, and what happens when we move outside those boundaries? What is the relation among popular, academic, and public history, and how should we evaluate sources? What is the difference between description and interpretation, and how do we balance them? Maza provides choice examples in place of definitive answers, and the result is a book that will spark classroom discussion and offer students a view of history as a vibrant, ever-changing field of inquiry that is thoroughly relevant to our daily lives.
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History Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    University of Chicago Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: September 18, 2017

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780226109473
    File size: 856 KB
    Release date: September 18, 2017

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780226109473
    File size: 856 KB
    Release date: September 18, 2017

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9780226109473
    File size: 3828 KB
    Release date: September 18, 2017

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    PDF ebook
  • Languages
    English