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1. Social history

   [London, Methuen]

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2. Social history : problems, strategies, and methods

   Fairburn, Miles

   New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

   This book critically analyzes the methodological problems encountered in the study of social history, providing a full assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of both the conventional and more innovative methods devised to resolve them. Drawing examples from some of the classic works in the discipline, Miles Fairburn examines the nature, varieties, schools and evolution of social history. Comprehensive and lucid, this is an original and accessible guide. .Drawing examples from some of the classic works in the discipline, Miles Fairburn examines the nature, varieties, schools and evolution of social history. Intended for advanced students and practising social historians who see social history as a problem solving discipline, the methodological problems examined include the absence of social categories, fragmenting evidence, the appraisal of rival explanations, the use of socially constructed evidence to substantiate claims about realities, how to avoid presentism and when its practice is justifiable, how to distinguish important causes and how to tell similarities from differences.

3. Social history : poems

   Rogers, Bobby C. (Bobby Caudle)

   Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]

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