A Practical Guide to Studying History: Skills and Approaches

** 1st Edition - PROSE Award Winner (2018) in the Textbook/Humanities Category ***This accessible and award-winning introduction to the history discipline explains the latest methodological approaches and debates and serves as a practical handbook to guide students through their studies.The book examines the differences in aims, methods and audiences for different types of history and reflects on the relationship between the skills developed during a history undergraduate degree and the practice of professional history. A Practical Guide to Studying History encourages students to hone the skills needed to read historical writing critically, write good essays, and participate in historical debates.Incorporating case studies taken from a range of periods and regions around the world, reflecting the varied nature of historical study, the book helps students to understand the subject, and to practice it successfully: it is an indispensable guide to studying history. For the first time, thi