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j_guilliatt

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Are there any fabulous text books just for the historiography part of the course? Like ones that help you analyse sources, and give info on Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus etc...?
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This is what my school uses as texts:

Marnie Hughes-Warrington, ed., Fifty Key Thinkers on History
John Warren, History and the Historians
Anna Green and Kathleen Troup, The Houses of History
 

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History and the historians is a VERY comprehensive book. Perhaps a little overly comprehensive - one of the problems I had with that particular book, later on, was condensing what I thought was important - particularly because there was so much that the book emphasizes as important.

Nevertheless, a pretty good book for gaining a grounding in the concepts/historians/arguments/approaches.
 

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Warren's book was very good imo. Bloody useful when combined with Webb's booklet. For the rest of historians, we received excerpts from their books and deconstructed them in class.
 

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