After the Fact

Davidson, James West; Lytle, Mark Hamilton

ISBN 10: 0073385484 / ISBN 13: 9780073385488

Edité par McGraw-Hill Education - Europe, 2009

Examines a broad variety of topics including oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. This book introduces readers to the detective work and analytical approaches historians use when they are actually doing history. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBA; HBJK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 650. . 2009. 6 Rev ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. N° de réf. du vendeur V9780073385488

Synopsis :

For more than twenty-five years, After the Fact has guided students through American history and the methods used to study it. In dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history, this best-selling book examines a broad variety of topics including oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. Whether for an introductory survey or for a historical methods course, After the Fact is the ideal text to introduce readers, step by step, to the detective work and analytical approaches historians use when they are actually doing history.

À propos des auteurs: James West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian who has pursued a full-time writing career, he is the author of numerous books, among them After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with Mark H. Lytle), The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, and Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge). He is co-editor with Michael Stiff of the Oxford New Narratives in American History, in which his most recent book appears: 'They Say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race.

Mark H. Lytle received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies. he has served two years as Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin, in Ireland. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson), America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon, and, most recently, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. He is co-editor of a joint issue of the journals of Diplomatic History and Environmental History dedicated to the field of environmental diplomacy.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : After the Fact
Éditeur : McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Date d'édition : 2009
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New