I had to read this book for a college course.

Dit boek is handig voor het ontwikkelen van geschiedschrijving als student, dus ergens heeft het zijn doel wel behaald. Alleen de vorming is erg vlak en repetitief naar mijn mening. Veel hoofdstukken bestaan voor circa 90% aan voorbeelden. Er zijn weinig kernzinnen die me raken en de voorbeelden zouden niet slecht hoeven te zijn, maar het is erg Amerikaans. Veel voorbeelden zijn met talloze namen van mensen die waarschijnlijk in Amerika een grote rol spelen, maar een vage mist zijn voor mijn Hollandse basiskennis.
Het tweede kritiek is dat er heel veel herhaling in zit. Daardoor zijn de geringe mate van theorie die in de overige 10% zit ook nog eens herhaald.
Als laatste merk ik dat er weinig een rode draad in zit.
Over het algemeen dus een nuttig boek, maar jammer dat het in deze vorm is geschreven.

Good information for beginners.

Considering how dry and boring the topic is (academic skills of history writing), Williams did a great job making it interesting. He virtually bombs the reader with random historical fact related to each academic skill (I quite enjoy random historical facts; who doesn't?).

Read this for a history class and I quite honestly learned nothing.

William writes an excellently researched historiography book to help students in the history field know how to write as well as analyze history. He includes lots of examples from all over history to make his point and writes it in easy short chapters to understand. Overall I think this was a great book.

My only problem with it was the blatant disrespect and trashy comments about our former President Trump (at least in the most recent edition. It’s one thing to dislike him. it’s another to bash him in a book while he is president that he has no part in. Bashing him and the people who follow him show too much of your opinion on present political problems when there are other people years before that could have sufficed to make his point just as good. Again that was my only problem with it giving this book a

4/5 stars.

Interesting information regarding the development of history at the beginning of the book but not much new insight.

Just something I picked up on a whim from the library stacks.

I didn't find this too thought provoking, yet it does offer a nice overview of certain important concepts. As a students' handbook at university level I am not too sure about its value. There is probably more comprehensive and critical stuff out there.

A very brief, yet lenient read.

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Couldn't say exactly how this second edition adds to the scholarship of the first, although the case studies reflect a 2007 knowledge, especially in the "history in real time" and "history on the internet." The lessons of these succinct articles will probably not surprise any amateur historian, although I found it to be very readable all the same. It makes sense that genetics would supplant linguistics as the primary tool for determining which tribes were related to each other, but to learn exactly why, with examples is less expensive than a refresher course at a local college.

Watch for a famous comedian who became a part of history by toying with the historian's tools.