HistoryBook · 1984
The Pursuit of History
John Tosh
Tosh works through what historical sources are, how they are criticised, and what gender history, postcolonial approaches, memory studies and public history have done to the field. He argues that history remains a coherent discipline still marked by its nineteenth century origins. The link is the seventh edition; the catalogue year is the 1984 Longman first.
Why you should read this
A standard introductory textbook on historical method, covering how historians select sources, handle evidence and argue about causation and interpretation rather than simply narrating events. It is widely assigned in undergraduate history courses as a first look at how the discipline works rather than at any particular period.
- Field
- History
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 1984
- Themes
- HistoriographyHistory
