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Using Non-Textual Sources Summary

Using Non-Textual Sources: A Historian's Guide by Dr Catherine Armstrong (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester)

Using Non-Textual Sources provides history students with the theoretical background and skills to interpret non-textual sources. It introduces the full range of non-textual sources used by historians and offers practical guidance on how to interpret them and incorporate them into essays and dissertations. There is coverage of the creation, production and distribution of non-textual sources; the acquisition of skills to 'read' these sources analytically; and the meaning, significance and reliability of these forms of evidence. Using Non-Textual Sources includes a section on interdisciplinary non-textual source work, outlining what historians borrow from disciplines such as art history, archaeology, geography and media studies, as well as a discussion of how to locate these resources online and elsewhere in order to use them in essays and dissertations. Case studies, such as William Hogarth's print Gin Lane (1751), the 1939 John Ford Western Stagecoach and the Hereford Mappa Mundi, are employed throughout to illustrate the functions of main source types. Photographs, cartoons, maps, artwork, audio clips, film, places and artifacts are all explored in a text that provides students with a comprehensive, cohesive and practical guide to using non-textual sources.

About Dr Catherine Armstrong (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester)

Catherine Armstrong is Lecturer in American History at Loughborough University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction \\ 1. Borrowing from Other Disciplines \\ 2. Reading Images \\ 3. Audio/Film Sources \\ 4. Material Culture and Historic Places \\ 5. Practical Applications \\ Postscript \\ Glossary \\ Further Reading \\ Index

Additional information

NPB9781472505835
9781472505835
1472505832
Using Non-Textual Sources: A Historian's Guide by Dr Catherine Armstrong (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester)
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Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2015-12-17
160
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