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The Historian's Toolbox

A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History

By: Robert C. Williams

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The Historian's Toolbox

A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History

By: Robert C. Williams

Written in an engaging and entertaining style, this widely-used how-to guide introduces readers to the theory, craft, and methods of history and provides a series of tools to help them research and understand the past. Part I is a stimulating, philosophical introduction to the key elements of history--evidence, narrative, and judgment--that explores how the study and concepts of history have evolved over the centuries. Part II guides readers through the workshop of history. Unlocking the historian's toolbox, the chapters here describe the tricks of the trade, with concrete examples of how to do history. The tools include documents, primary and secondary sources, maps, arguments, bibliographies, chronologies, and many others. This section also covers professional ethics and controversial issues, such as plagiarism, historical hoaxes, and conspiracy theories. Part III addresses the relevance of the study of history in today's fast-paced world. The chapters here will resonate with a new generation of readers: on everyday history, oral history, material culture, public history, event analysis, and historical research on the Internet. This Part also includes two new chapters for this edition. GIS and CSI examines the use of geographic information systems and the science of forensics in discovering and seeing the patterns of the past. Too Much Information treats the issue of information overload, glut, fatigue, and anxiety, while giving the reader meaningful signals that can benefit the study and craft of history. A new epilogue for this edition argues for the persistence of history as a useful and critically important way to understand the world despite the information deluge.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765633280

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9780765633286

Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1867

By: Robert Hunt

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Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1867

By: Robert Hunt

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375013701

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9783375013707

Aging and Social Expenditure in the Major Industrial Countries, 1980-2025

By: Ziba Farhadian,Mr.Bernard Nivollet,Mr.Robert Alan Feldman,Mr.Peter S. Heller,Mr.Richard Hemming,Mr.Menachem Katz,Ahsan S. Mansur,Mr.Donogh McDonald,Mr.Edgardo Ruggiero,Mr.Peter Kohnert

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Aging and Social Expenditure in the Major Industrial Countries, 1980-2025

By: Ziba Farhadian,Mr.Bernard Nivollet,Mr.Robert Alan Feldman,Mr.Peter S. Heller,Mr.Richard Hemming,Mr.Menachem Katz,Ahsan S. Mansur,Mr.Donogh McDonald,Mr.Edgardo Ruggiero,Mr.Peter Kohnert

Most of the seven major industrial countries are now experiencing significant changes in their demographic structure. A persistent pattern of declining fertility and improving life expectancy has created major segments of the population that are already relatively aged or will become so in the near future. This paper examines the impact of prospective demographic trends on the level and structure of social expenditure by the governments of the seven major industrial countries (the Group of Seven) through the year 2025.

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International Monetary Fund

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093993468X

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9780939934683

The Forensic Historian

Using Science to Reexamine the Past

By: Robert C Williams

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The Forensic Historian

Using Science to Reexamine the Past

By: Robert C Williams

Modern forensic science has significantly affected historical debate over some well-known past crimes or mysteries, utilizing modern DNA, nuclear, and chemical analyses to reexamine the past. This book takes an in-depth look at 20 significant cases where investigators have applied new forensic techniques to confirm, dispute, or revise accepted historical accounts. Among the cases included are the murder of King Tut, the validity of the Vinland Map, the authenticity of the Hitler diaries, Joan of Arc's ashes, the bones of Anastasia, arsenic and the death of Napoleon, and the dating of the Shroud of Turin, plus 13 more.

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165

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Routledge

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1317456793

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9781317456797

Genes and the Agents of Life

The Individual in the Fragile Sciences Biology

By: Robert A. Wilson

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Genes and the Agents of Life

The Individual in the Fragile Sciences Biology

By: Robert A. Wilson

Genes and the Agents of Life undertakes to rethink the place of the individual in the biological sciences, drawing parallels with the cognitive and social sciences. Genes, organisms, and species are all agents of life but how are each of these conceptualized within genetics, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, and systematics? The book includes highly accessible discussions of genetic encoding, species and natural kinds, and pluralism above the levels of selection, drawing on work from across the biological sciences. The book is a companion to the author's Boundaries of the Mind, also available from Cambridge, where the focus is the cognitive sciences. The book will appeal to a broad range of professionals and students in philosophy, biology, and the history of science.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521544955

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9780521544955

An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Robert C. Leitz,Joseph R. McElrath

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An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Robert C. Leitz,Joseph R. McElrath

This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by the African-American novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). His correspondents included prominent members of the Harlem Renaissance as well as major American political figures Chesnutt sought to influence on behalf of his fellow African Americans.

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380

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Stanford University Press

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0804745080

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9780804745086

Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators

By: Ricardo D Lopez,Robert C Frohn

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Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators

By: Ricardo D Lopez,Robert C Frohn

This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples. This is a specialized application and both these topics have evolved rapidly in the past decade. This evolution is not in the previous edition, and indeed this update provides much new information and valuable ideas for the professional and assist in directing the training of new personnel. The new edition will feature a combination of landscape ecology metrics, quantitative field measurements, and geospatial analyses.

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269

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CRC Press

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1498754392

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Headstones of Heroes

The Restoration and History of Confederate Graves in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery

By: Robert E. Zaworski

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Headstones of Heroes

The Restoration and History of Confederate Graves in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery

By: Robert E. Zaworski

The Restoration and History of Confederate Graves in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery

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344

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Turner Publishing Company

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1681622394

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Lineage Book of Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

By: Robert Glenn Thurtle

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Lineage Book of Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

By: Robert Glenn Thurtle

This work, a verbatim transcription of the three successful charters defining the scope and authority of the Virginia Company and listing its stockholders in England and Virginia, is an important companion work to Professor Craven's booklet above. The text of the three charters is taken from a contemporary copy discovered among the Chancery Rolls of the Public Record Office in London shortly before this work's original publication. The accompanying documents serve to illustrate some of the practical issues pertaining to the administration of the colony, and, taken together, this collection may be construed as the Virginia "constitution" for the colony's first fifteen years of existence.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806350873

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9780806350875

Andrew Jackson

The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821

By: Robert V. Remini

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Andrew Jackson

The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821

By: Robert V. Remini

Volume Three covers Jackson's reelection to the presidency and the weighty issues with which he was faced: the nullification crisis, the tragic removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi River, the mounting violence throughout the country over slavery, and the tortuous efforts to win the annexation of Texas.

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JHU Press

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1421413280

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9781421413280

Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

By: Harvard Business Review,Robert W. Livingston,Laura Morgan Roberts,Joan C. Williams,Anthony J. Mayo

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Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

By: Harvard Business Review,Robert W. Livingston,Laura Morgan Roberts,Joan C. Williams,Anthony J. Mayo

Seize this moment to advance racial justice at your organization. In the wake of widespread anti-racism demonstrations across the world, many companies have spoken out forcefully. They've made unprecedented commitments to equity and launched ad campaigns and task forces to counter racism, especially anti-Black racism. But now comes the real test—harnessing the energy of this moment to further and sustain change for the better. Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you combat racism and bias throughout your company, revitalize your diversity and inclusion efforts, and lead the conversations necessary to bring your organization a step closer to racial equity. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.

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Harvard Business Press

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1647821134

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9781647821135

Horace Greeley

Champion of American Freedom

By: Robert C. Williams

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Horace Greeley

Champion of American Freedom

By: Robert C. Williams

A major figure in nineteenth-century American politics and reform movements, Greeley was also a key actor in a worldwide debate about the meaning of freedom that involved progressive thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Karl Marx." "In the first comprehensive biography of Greeley to be published in nearly half a century, Williams captures Greeley from all sides: editor, reformer, political candidate, eccentric, and trans-Atlantic public intellectual; examining headlining news issues of the day, including slavery, westward expansion, European revolutions, the Civil War, the demise of the Whig and the birth of the Republican parties, transcendentalism, and other intellectual currents of the era.

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NYU Press

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0814794025

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9780814794029

The American Atom

A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present

By: Philip L. Cantelon,Richard G. Hewlett,Robert Chadwell Williams

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The American Atom

A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present

By: Philip L. Cantelon,Richard G. Hewlett,Robert Chadwell Williams

For this edition (first in 1984), the editors have updated the collection of primary documents which tell the story of atomic energy in the US from the discovery of fission through the development of nuclear weapons, international proliferation, and attempts at control. The book also includes a new chapter, reflects on Chernoyl, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812213548

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9780812213546

Golden Fleece

The Voynich Manuscript and British Intelligence, 1890-1960

By: Robert C. Williams

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Golden Fleece

The Voynich Manuscript and British Intelligence, 1890-1960

By: Robert C. Williams

The Voynich Manuscript resides in a library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. No one can read the manuscript, break its cipher, or identify its provenance. Nothing like it exists. No one mentions it until 1912. Why? Golden Fleece tells the story of London antiques dealer Wilfred Voynich, his relations with British intelligence, and the provenance of his 1912 cipher. In this book, author Robert C. Williams posits that Voynich’s manuscript was not an early modern find but a modern creation by Voynich himself and others using materials acquired from an antiques warehouse in Florence, Italy. The tale of Voynich and his manuscript suggests a modern hoax comparable to Piltdown Man that combines history, espionage, revolution, and cryptography. About the Author Robert C. Williams is a retired Russian historian who has taught history at Williams and Davidson College and Washington University in St. Louis. He has also served on the boards of Agnes Scott College and Wesleyan University and is a co-founder of History Associates Incorporated. He has a special interest in choral and barbershop singing and his family camp on Kezar Lake in Maine. He and his wife Ann married in 1960 and have three children and four grandchildren. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books, one of which, Russian Art and American Money, 1900-1940, was nominated by Harvard University Press for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Dorrance Publishing

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9798891274020

Cognitive Networked Sensing and Big Data

By: Robert Qiu,Michael Wicks

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Cognitive Networked Sensing and Big Data

By: Robert Qiu,Michael Wicks

Wireless Distributed Computing and Cognitive Sensing defines high-dimensional data processing in the context of wireless distributed computing and cognitive sensing. This book presents the challenges that are unique to this area such as synchronization caused by the high mobility of the nodes. The author will discuss the integration of software defined radio implementation and testbed development. The book will also bridge new research results and contextual reviews. Also the author provides an examination of large cognitive radio network; hardware testbed; distributed sensing; and distributed computing.

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633

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461445442

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9781461445449

Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators

By: Ricardo D Lopez,Robert C Frohn

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Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators

By: Ricardo D Lopez,Robert C Frohn

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CRC Press

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1351648756

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The Historian's Toolbox

The Historian's Toolbox

Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1867

Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1867

Aging and Social Expenditure in the Major Industrial Countries, 1980-2025

Aging and Social Expenditure in the Major Industrial Countries, 1980-2025

The Forensic Historian

The Forensic Historian

Genes and the Agents of Life

Genes and the Agents of Life

An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators

Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators

Headstones of Heroes

Headstones of Heroes

Lineage Book of Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

Lineage Book of Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley

The American Atom

The American Atom

Golden Fleece

Golden Fleece

Cognitive Networked Sensing and Big Data

Cognitive Networked Sensing and Big Data

Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators

Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators

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