{"product_id":"using-non-textual-sources-a-historians-guide-9781472506535","title":"Using Non-Textual Sources: A Historian's Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUsing Non-Textual Sources\u003c\/i\u003e provides history students with the theoretical background and skills to interpret non-textual sources. It introduces the full range of non-textual sources used by historians and offers practical guidance on how to interpret them and incorporate them into essays and dissertations. In addition to this, the book posits a theoretical framework that justifies the use of these items as historical sources and explains how they can be used to further understand the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is coverage of the creation, production and distribution of non-textual sources; the acquisition of skills to 'read' these sources analytically; and the meaning, significance and reliability of these forms of evidence. \u003ci\u003eUsing Non-Textual Sources\u003c\/i\u003e includes a section on interdisciplinary non-textual source work, outlining what historians borrow from disciplines such as art history, archaeology, geography and media studies, as well as a discussion of how to locate these resources online and elsewhere in order to use them in essays and dissertations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCase studies, such as the Tudor religious propaganda painting \u003ci\u003eEdward VI and the Pope\u003c\/i\u003e, the 1954 John Ford Western \u003ci\u003eThe Searchers\u003c\/i\u003e and the Hereford \u003ci\u003eMappa Mundi\u003c\/i\u003e, are employed throughout to illustrate the functions of main source types. Photographs, cartoons, maps, artwork, audio clips, film, places and artifacts are all explored in a text that provides students with a comprehensive, cohesive and practical guide to using non-textual sources.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Armstrong\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in American History at Loughborough University, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWriting North America in the Seventeenth Century \u003c\/i\u003e(2007) and, along with Laura M. Chmielewski, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Experience: People, Places, Ideas \u003c\/i\u003e(2013).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51321919045906,"sku":"9781472506535","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_19923057-8076-44fb-8db3-b8a05174689d.jpg?v=1748598230","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/using-non-textual-sources-a-historians-guide-9781472506535","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}