From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods A Translation and Adaptation of "Uit goede bron" by Walter Prevenier Edition

by Martha Howell (Author), Walter Prevenier (Author)

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From Reliable Sources is 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.

Martha 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. Illustrating 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.

The 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.

A substantially revised and updated edition of Prevenier's Uit goede bron, originally published in Belgium and now in its seventh edition, From Reliable Sources also provides a survey of western historiography and an extensive research bibliography.

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"Among 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."―Choice, January 2002, Vol. 39, No. 5

"If the best historians, beginning with Thucydides, have been skeptical of metaphysical absolutes, they have also been reluctant to immerse themselves in antiquarianism. The present book draws strength from this tension."―Charles Sullivan, Common Knowledge, 2003

"Historians generally have had to work out for themselves the different ways to read and use sources, the issue of how much we actually can learn from the past, the different ways that historical questions have been asked, and the uses to which history can be put. From Reliable Sources makes this process easier by laying out the principal elements of historiography and source criticism. No one, after reading this book, will be able to think again of sources as unproblematic conveyors of simple facts."―Constance Brittain Bouchard, University of Akron

"Both learned and informative, From Reliable Sources is clearly the outcome of extensive archival and critical experience. With its accessible balance of exposition and example, it is also a pleasure to read. There is nothing else like this in English."―Isabel V. Hull, Cornell University

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"If the best historians, beginning with Thucydides, have been skeptical of metaphysical absolutes, they have also been reluctant to immerse themselves in antiquarianism. The present book draws strength from this tension."

-- Charles Sullivan, Common Knowledge, 2003

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press; A Translation and Adaptation of "Uit goede bron" by Walter Prevenier edition (April 27, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801485606
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801485602
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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A.B. Altalena

I wanted to like this book

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020

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It starts pretty good... then you reach the Marxist crap, feminist ideology over psychology crap, and then you get to "whiteness" (the writers did not use the quotation marks) crap. On the bright side I now understand why in college the Middle Easter Studies was not interested in learning facts but only talking about what they considered myths. When I took a history course after taking a middle easter studies like course, I got an F on my first (history) test. The professor wrote, "we can talk about forever about myths. Let's stick to the facts." This book and that "studies" were not interested in finding the facts. Rather its an attempt to legitimize the endless grievance "studies." That is not history... that is bias confirmation. And this book is not the historical method I wish it was.

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Another quick delivery

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Another quick delivery! Textbook for my husband.

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Richard A. Fidler

boxy but good

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2007

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This book is intended primarily for serious students of history. It discusses the foundations of historical research--what kinds of questions do historians ask, what constitutes evidence, what makes a source reliable, and the epistomology that underguards historical inquiry. The language is somewhat dense at times and examples are frequently pulled from European history, a not always felicitous choice for students of American history. Still, the reader leaves the book with an arsenal of questions that he can use in tackling his own research questions or in critiquing the work of others. I am still searching for the brief handbook that will provide the amateur historian with a guide towards writing honest, vital, and accurate local histories. To the best of my knowledge, it does not exist.

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Gregory B. Welch

It's a good introduction

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2014

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It was a good introduction, and that was what I was looking for, but I really could have used a more advanced book. I have done grad school work in sociology, so much of what was covered was old hat. But if you had no background in any sort of social science, this would be fine. It would actually be nice to give at least part of this as an assignment in an advanced high school history course, to give students a better understanding of what they are getting when they read history: an informed argument.

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Mary Adkins-Mattthews

fast service

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2018

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good book

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MaryLou

great condition and price

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2018

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came fast, good textbook

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K. Moran

Easy to read reference book

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2018

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Easy to read reference book. Great information on sources and how to judge what a source is for history and genealogy research.

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Tom Ryan

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2018

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An easy read and good guide to research methods for historical writing.

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badboybilly

essential for those new to history

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2012

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As an academic, but not a historian, I found this really helpful in explaining the fundamentals of historians' craft, which otherwise doesn't get explained in textbook form that much.

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Ben

A good introduction or refresher.

Reviewed in Canada on January 26, 2017

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This book is well-suited for an undergraduate-level methodology course, however I still appreciated reading it to kick off a graduate seminar on historiography. Provides a fairly up-to-date and comprehensive overview of current approaches and debates in the study of history.

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faustine dellupo

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Reviewed in France on April 22, 2016

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j'ai acheté ce livre pour mes études et il est complémentaire à mon cours d'"outils critiques" où on s'intéresse à différents documents qu'on analyse

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