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Writing local history / John Beckett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckett, J. V., author.
- Series:
- EBL-Schweitzer
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Local history--Study and teaching.
- Local history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- Online-ausg.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is an authoritative account of how local history has come to be one of the most popular and productive intellectual pastimes in our modern society.
- Contents:
- 9780719029509; 9780719029509; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; I Introduction; II The origins of local history; III Antiquaries at large: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; IV The parish and the town; V Local history marginalised; VI Local history and national history, 1880-1945; VII W.G. Hoskins and the founding of modern local history; VIII New approaches: the region and the community; IX New approaches: family history, towns, landscape and other specialisms; X The sources revolution; XI Local history today; XII Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-84779-513-7
- 1-78170-067-2
- 1-84779-133-6
- OCLC:
- 818847117
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