The Craft of Historical Research
A Practical Guide from Start to Finish
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Complete with practical advice and helpful guidance, this book is an approachable manual perfect for budding historians at all levels. Its worksheets, which focus on framing realistic goals and heading off common misunderstandings, will aid independent work and make check-ins with the advisor more candid and productive. Drawing on examples from six continents, as well as primary sources ranging from cuneiform tablets to emails, students will learn about the effective deployment of quotations, footnotes, maps, graphs, images, and data visualizations. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on how the student can formulate, support, and revise their claims in a historical project with a skeptical reader in mind.
Complete with practical advice and helpful guidance, this book is an approachable manual perfect for budding historians at all levels. Its worksheets, which focus on framing realistic goals and heading off common misunderstandings, will aid independent work and make check-ins with the advisor more candid and productive. Drawing on examples from six continents, as well as primary sources ranging from cuneiform tablets to emails, students will learn about the effective deployment of quotations, footnotes, maps, graphs, images, and data visualizations. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on how the student can formulate, support, and revise their claims in a historical project with a skeptical reader in mind.
Takes agnostic approach to research topic choice, in a conversational, jargon-free style Offers tips and tricks for every stage of the process, including impostor syndrome and concerns about originality Looks ahead to the defense, conference papers, peer review, careers, and the non-academic job market
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Isaac Land
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“Written with compassion and common sense, this book is an invaluable resource for writers at any stage in their careers! Land is a scholar of the highest caliber as well as a sensitive pedagogue. His respect for the student and his capacious understanding of diversity are evident on every page. I wish I had had this book when I was starting out.” (Dana Rabin, Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
“Isaac Land has just done a massive favor to Gen Z history students (and their teachers) by writing the definitive ‘how-to’ guide for our times. Drawing from his twenty-five years teaching undergraduates (many of them first-generation students) and the most engrossing and thought-provoking historical research out there, he has distilled the best practices and insights for his readers. From crafting a topic (including practical strategies on how to change it) to finding your ‘cousins, frenemies, and rivals’ in the scholarship, and locating your comfortable place on the ‘originality spectrum,’ all the way to writing your argument and even making small talk at your first conference, Isaac Land got your back.” (Elsa Devienne, Assistant Professor in History and American Studies, Northumbria University, UK)
“This is the book I wish I’d had when I was a student starting my first major research project. Practical, direct, and thorough, Isaac Land distills a wealth of experience into this comprehensive guide and demystifies the work of doing history.” (Sean Fraga, Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Environmental Studies and History, University of Southern California Dornsife, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USA)
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