Doing History [1 ed.] 9780415565769

Doing History bridges the gap between the way history is studied in school or as represented in the media and the way it

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Table of contents :
Part 1: What is History?

1. Introduction

2. Pre-Modern Historians on History

3. Academic History

Part 2: What Historians Do

4. Using Sources

5. Creating Historical Knowledge

6. Writing Histories. Historical Interpretations and Imagination

Part 3: Whose History?

7. The Power of History

8. Histories from Another Perspective

9. Popular History

Part 4: History Today

10. Public History

11. Liberating History

Bibliography

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