Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Middletown Upper Houses; a history of the north society of Middletown, Connecticut, from to , with genealogical and biographical chapters on early families and a full genealogy of the Ranney family Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date c Topics Rainey family , Cromwell, Conn. There are no reviews yet.
More filters. Sort order. The book is at time dense with some theories described more clearly than others. Where most historical works utilize a combination of theories and methods, this book serves as a good framework for understanding foundational concepts in historiography.
This book is generally utilized in post-graduate level history classes. Aug 30, Rian rated it it was ok. I read this for one of my grad school classes and it was VERY dense. While some of the information was interesting, the way it was presented just didn't work very well. A lot of passages seemed to ramble on about a topic that wasn't important or central to the subject of the chapter and often was very vague and missed the mark of actually coherently explaining the main purposes behind a certain theory and how it was utilized.
How To Analyze It! My own interest in this kind of a book was sparked back in high school by The Pooh Perplex , a humorous look at literary analysis styles from Marxism to literary snobbery to English Romanticism. Grasping the essential patterns of a style is like mastering different techniques of dance or a craft — the overview allows one to embrace and app How To Analyze It! Grasping the essential patterns of a style is like mastering different techniques of dance or a craft — the overview allows one to embrace and appreciate each, either as a spectator or as a performer.
Each selection is divided into two parts. The first is an overview by the authors the style is about with a few questions at the end to stimulate discussion. The second part is an example essay by a professional historian who employs that style. While the first part comes with footnotes and referenced, the sample essays do not, which IMV is a drawback. While the overviews were uniformly quite good I had problems with some of the readings.
Richard Wall's essay on the composition of British Households since certainly did illustrate Quantitative Historical Methods but was so suitably boring in it's use of limited statistics that anyone unfamiliar with the approach would henceforth wish to ignore it. Henrietta Whiteman's post colonial exposition illustrated the emic bias of the genre.
While directly contrasting European empiricism with indigenous narratives, the latter came off as cloyingly romanticized, and the choice of a self-interview rather than a 3rd person exposition of multiple sources put this more into a category of oral history. The appropriateness of the story of Mrs Weldon, a Victorian era spiritualist who's estranged husband tried to commit her to a lunatic asylum would fit better into a post structural framework if she were to tie this to Michel Foucault's analysis of the label of madness as a means to control fringe members of society.
White is someone who I've had on my list to read for some time. I found his equivalencing of historical analysis to fictional rhetoric disturbing yet seductive. Braudel's essay from The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II and his concept of 3 levels of time reflected in the social influences of mountain regions was impressive.
Braudel is considered the founder of the Annales view of history and this is certainly an apt choice. Inga Clendinnen's discussion of the disintegration of 16th century Yucatan society came in the wake of the Spanish conquest, especially concerning women, was fascinating showing off the Ethno-Anthropologic approach admirably. Erik Erikson's analysis of Hitler's appeal to the German population not as a substitute father figure but as an overgrown adolescent older brother provided an excellent appeal for a Psycho historical perspective.
The examples of the remaining 4 chapters on Empirical, Sociological, the value and problems of collecting Oral Histories and the dimension of Gender in history were fair and reasonable representations. Though long past university age I found the book useful in clarifying some matters, and more useful in fuzzifying others.
Allowing for the substitution of the less recommendable readings this could be the basis of a really interesting seminar based or online course. View 1 comment. Having a work like this is immensely helpful as a backbone for a historiography class. However, I do not think this book accomplishes its task as well as it could. Green and Troup author each chapter covering a different historiographical field or question themselves, and follow each chapter with an article corresponding to said chapter's subject.
It would have been better had this been a more complete anthology, with various experts in appropriate subjects authoring the chapters appropriate to Having a work like this is immensely helpful as a backbone for a historiography class.
It would have been better had this been a more complete anthology, with various experts in appropriate subjects authoring the chapters appropriate to their academic specialties.
This would have prevented the inevitable problem of Green and Troup writing a chapter on a field or subject that they are not themselves intimately familiar with this is particularly clear in the chapters on Marx and post-structuralism. That said, for what it is, it gets the job done. Aug 31, Manuel Martins rated it it was ok.
Not as clear as it advertises, the theoretical framework of each chapter is, quite frankly, weak with a special emphasis on the Marxist chapter, which introduces key-concepts of Marxist philosophy that are never properly explained productive forces, means of production, mode of production or relations if production, i. Technically didn't get through like 5 chapters, but I've been looking forward to giving this 2 stars for weeks and I'm not going to give up now.
A great overview of the different types of theory used in historical research. Compared to other theory books this was easy to get through. Sep 06, Kavya rated it liked it. Some chapters were better than others. Nuanced, in-depth, well-structured, and interesting. I found it useful and fascinating. Aug 10, Andrew rated it it was ok. For a book so thick, it has surprisingly little to say. They also show how much the taxes are and whether they're paid or past due. Most large counties and some rural counties have tax records online; otherwise, searches and inquiries can be made at the county office during office hours.
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