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
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