Studying Family and Community History: Volume 4, Sources and Methods for Family and Community Historians by Michael Drake

Studying Family and Community History: Volume 4, Sources and Methods for Family and Community Historians by Michael Drake

This is the fourth and final volume in a major new initiative in the study of local history, designed to equip students and amateur enthusiasts with a mastery of the basic techniques and concepts required to pursue the subject in depth.This handbook offers thorough guidance on sources, research strategies and techniques, the relevant libraries and archives, and how to present research findings. It is packed with information for those embarking on personal projects, and is an indispensable reference tool for all local and community historians.

Ruth Finnegan FBA is a cultural historian and anthropologist with interdisciplinary interests in classical studies, literature, sociolinguistics, and modes of cognition. She is credited with inspiring a new generation of Africanists to recognize the relevance of oral literature. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College Oxford and an Emeritus and Research Professor at the Open University UK. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the British Academy. She studied classics at Oxford, then social anthropology, fieldwork, and university teaching in Africa. She was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1933.

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ISBN 13	9780521465809
ISBN 10	052146580X
Title	Studying Family and Community History: Volume 4, Sources and Methods for Family and Community Historians
Author	Michael Drake
Series	Studying Family And Community History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1994-06-24
Number of pages	336
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