A Little Book for New Historians – Why and How to Study History

Robert Tracy McKenzie (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2019
IVP Academic (Verlag)
978-0-8308-5346-5 (ISBN)

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Veteran historian Robert Tracy McKenzie offers a concise, clear, and beautifully written introduction to the study of history. Laying out necessary skills, methods, and attitudes for historians in training, this resource is loaded with concrete examples and insightful principles that show how the study of history—when faithfully pursued—can shape your heart as well as your mind.

Many people think of history as merely "the past"—or at most, information about the past. But the real work of a historian is to listen to the voices of those who have gone before and humbly remember the flesh and blood on the other side of the evidence. What is their story? How does it become part of our own?
In A Little Book for New Historians veteran historian Robert Tracy McKenzie offers a concise, clear, and beautifully written introduction to the study of history. In addition to making a case for the discipline in our pragmatic, "present-tense" culture, McKenzie lays out necessary skills, methods, and attitudes for historians in training. Loaded with concrete examples and insightful principles, this primer shows how the study of history, faithfully pursued, can shape your heart as well as your mind.

Robert Tracy McKenzie (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is Arthur F. Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning and professor and chair of the department of history at Wheaton College. He is the author of books including One South or Many?, Lincolnites and Rebels, and The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History.

Part One: Why Study History?

1. So What Is History Anyway?

2. Our "Present-Tense Culture"

3. Practical Rewards

4. Transformation

5. Discipleship

Part Two: How to Study History Faithfully

6. Listening to Other Historians

7. Listening to the Dead

8. Contributing to the Conversation

9. Why Does It Matter?

Appendix: What is History, and What are Its Characteristics?

General Index

Scripture Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.02.2019
Verlagsort	IL
Sprache	englisch
Maße	4 x 7 mm
Gewicht	3520 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8308-5346-4 / 0830853464
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-5346-5 / 9780830853465
Zustand	Neuware