History beyond the text : a student's guide to approaching alternative sources / edited by Sarah Barber and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird.

Contributor(s): Barber, Sarah | Peniston-Bird, C. MMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge guides to using historical sources: Publisher: Abington, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: xiv, 208 p. : ill., facsims. ; 25 cmISBN: 0415429625 (pbk.); 9780415429627 (pbk.)Subject(s): History -- Sources | History -- ResearchDDC classification: 907.2 LOC classification: D5 | .H556 2009Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
Fine art : the creative image / Sarah Barber -- The cartoon : the image as critique / Frank Palmeri -- The photograph : the still image / Derek Sayer -- Film and television : the moving image / Jeffrey Richards -- Music : the composed sound / Burton W. Peretti -- Oral history : the sound of memory / Corinna Peniston-Bird -- The Internet : virtual space / Lisa Blenkinsop -- Landscape : the configured space / Tom Williamson -- Architecture : the built object / Christopher Long -- Material culture : the object / Adrienne D. Hood.
Summary: Sources are the bedrock of history. But over the past few years the question of 'what is a historical source' has become an increasingly prominent concern. This text opens up the discussion on sources to those beyond the 'traditional' ones.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fine art : the creative image / Sarah Barber -- The cartoon : the image as critique / Frank Palmeri -- The photograph : the still image / Derek Sayer -- Film and television : the moving image / Jeffrey Richards -- Music : the composed sound / Burton W. Peretti -- Oral history : the sound of memory / Corinna Peniston-Bird -- The Internet : virtual space / Lisa Blenkinsop -- Landscape : the configured space / Tom Williamson -- Architecture : the built object / Christopher Long -- Material culture : the object / Adrienne D. Hood.

Sources are the bedrock of history. But over the past few years the question of 'what is a historical source' has become an increasingly prominent concern. This text opens up the discussion on sources to those beyond the 'traditional' ones.

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