From Reliable Sources is a lively introduction to historical
methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master
in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus on the basics of source
criticism, rather than on how to find references or on the process
of writing, makes it an invaluable guide for all students of
history and for anyone who must extract meaning from written and
unwritten sources.
Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier explore the methods employed
by historians to establish the reliability of materials; how they
choose, authenticate, decode, compare, and, finally, interpret
those sources. Illustrating their discussion with examples from the
distant past as well as more contemporary events, they pay
particular attention to recent information media, such as
television, film, and videotape.
The authors do not subscribe to the positivist belief that the
historian can attain objective and total knowledge of the past.
Instead, they argue that each generation of historians develops its
own perspective, and that our understanding of the past is
constantly reshaped by the historian and the world he or she
inhabits.
A substantially revised and updated edition of Prevenier's Uit
goede bron, originally published in Belgium and now in its seventh
edition, From Reliable Sources also provides a survey of western
historiography and an extensive research bibliography.
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