This best-selling guide will help you get to grips with the larger themes and issues behind historical study, while also showing you how to formulate your own ideas in a clear, analytical style. Fully updated throughout, further advice on using web-based sources and avoiding plagiarism will equip you with the tools you need to succeed on your course.

A clear and comprehensive guide to historiography and the methodology of history
Emphasises the social, economic and cultural facets of historical enquiry as well as more traditional approaches
Updated to include more information on using webbased sources, referencing correctly and avoiding plagiarism

Autorentext
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, USA. Donald MacRaild is Senior Professor at London Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhalt
Authors' Preface.- PART ONE.- 1. The Scope of History.- 2. Varieties of History (i): 'Traditional History'.- 3. Varieties of History (ii): 'the New History'.- PART TWO.- 4. Approaches to History: Sources, Methods and Historians.- 5. Theories and Concepts.- PART THREE.- 6. Studying History7. The Learning Environment.- 8. Writing History (i): The Essay.- 9. Writing History (ii): The Dissertation.- 10. History Exams.- Afterword.- Suggestions for Further Reading.- Index.