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Thinking About History

By: Sarah Maza
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
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What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.

Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view the nation as the inevitable context for history, and what happens when we move outside those boundaries? What is the relation among popular, academic, and public history, and how should we evaluate sources? What is the difference between description and interpretation, and how do we balance them? Maza provides choice examples in place of definitive answers, and the result is a book that will spark classroom discussion and offer students a view of history as a vibrant, ever-changing field of inquiry that is thoroughly relevant to our daily lives.

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this book isn't about an event or period, but about historical study itself, the different schools, approaches and methodology used in the pursuit of historical knowledge. accessible to both the academic student and layperson, it is a must for anyone remotely interested in history.

Excellent introduction to historical theory

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Everything you need to know about what happened in history and why in a well written book.

Insights that she gives, throws light on what happened in history.

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