Customer Reviews:
A "must-have" guide for history majors and a useful quick-check resource for professional historians, highly recommended........2007-07-08
Written by Robert C. Williams (Vail Professor of History and Dean of Faculty Emeritus, Davidson College) The Historian's Toolbox: A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History is a reader-friendly guide for aspiring historians of all skill and experience levels. Now in an updated second edition with five new chapters, The Historian's Toolbox covers everything from how to choose a good history topic and write a solid paper, to evaluating primary, secondary, and tertiary historical sources, to format guidelines for credits and acknowledgments, to historical narrative as compared to interpretation or speculation, to even the potentials and abuses of the user-modified website Wikipedia. A "must-have" guide for history majors and a useful quick-check resource for professional historians, highly recommended.
Grand theory and nuts-and-bolts.......2003-07-09
Williams gives instructors and students of history two books in one. Part one is a quick look at some of the big ideas and controversies of the profession. These short chapters on such topics as metahistory and anti-history should provide great fodder for class discussions. Part two on "the tools of history" offers good guidance on researching, writing, and thinking about history. Again, short, provocative chapters should stimulate students to think and talk about the joys and difficulties of doing quality history. I'll assign the book to my next class on historical research and writing. With this book as a guide, students will not write just another term paper; they'll know how to craft a livelier, deeper, and more revealing interpretation of the past.
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A Student's Guide to History provides the practical help students need to be effective in their history courses. In addition to introducing students to the nature of the discipline, the guide covers a broad range of skills, from note-taking and test-taking to approaching different types of writing assignments. The book's accessible page design, clear explanations, and annotated examples make it easy for students to improve their performance.
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Good Overall Reference.......2006-11-02
I would not say that this book is CRITICAL to being a good history student but it has certainly helped. Benjamin lays everything out in basics and is well-organized. I do appreciate the fact that he does give credit to finding information on the Internet as that is becoming the dominant form of "net-casting" for most college students.
An essential handbook for college history students........1999-02-27
I like its clear organization which makes the book easy to understand. Its headings are focused and consistent with teaching the important academic skills necessary for college students to be successful in the study of college history. The sections on the net and databases are invaluable. If students wish to do well in their history courses, this is the book for them.
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Bringing together practical methods from both history and composition, Writing History provides a wealth of tips and advice to help students research and write essays for history classes. The book covers all aspects of writing about history, including finding topics and researching them, interpreting source materials, drawing inferences from sources, and constructing arguments. It concludes with three chapters that discuss writing effective sentences, using precise wording, and revising. Using numerous examples from the works of cultural, political, and social historians, Writing History serves as an ideal supplement to history courses that require students to conduct research. The second edition includes expanded sections on plagiarism, interviewing, and topic selection, as well as new sections on searching and using the Internet.
Customer Reviews:
Simple intro.......2005-12-14
This book is fairly short (111 pgs with not a lot of print on them,) but is a great introduction to writing for history classes. It doesn't go into lots of detail, it is very basic.
It was helpful in figuring out "What on earth should I write about?" "How do I make a thesis?" all the way to finishing a history paper.
Ideal for advanced undergraduate students of history.......2000-03-27
Storey, developed this text for a writing program at Harvard. A historian by training, Storey does an excellent job of describing basic and advanced research and writing techniques. His text is succinct and lively, filled with well chosen examples. If you have ever wondered about the difference between a primary and secondary source or how to deal with contradictory evidence, this is the book for you. I assign it in my writing courses.
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This work is an essential introduction to the vast body of writing about history, from classical Greece and Rome to the contemporary world. M.C. Lemon maps out key debates and central concepts of philosophy of history placing principal thinkers in the context of their times and schools of thought. Lemon explains the crucial differences between speculative philosophy as an n enquiry into the course and meaning of history and analytic philosophy of history as relating to the nature and methods of history as a discipline. After providing a guide to the principal thinkers from pre-historical times to the present, the book goes on to present a critical summary of the leading issues raised by critical theorists of history, incorporating topics such as objectivity, ideology, historical explanation and narrative.
Customer Reviews:
A digest of the dead, white, and right.......2005-12-05
Lukacs' fluid writing style is this book's greatest merit. He points out a great deal of classical and modern history of outstanding merit and durability. This booklet, however, is published by the ISI's publishing house. Reading it is like being flung back into the academic culture of East Coast Universities in the 1950s. The sensation is bizarre, and horribly exclusionary. Almost any other introduction to the discipline for undergraduates would be better by showing that non-European, non-Christian stories also have merit. History is not only the study of personal and national heritage, but the trials and value of all human cultures, even those not personally relevant. The book lacks such generosity, often termed imaginative sympathy. Too bad.
Excellent.......2003-11-27
Excellent book that can be easily read in one sitting!
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- not at all formatted for the AP world test!
- Great tool for the CSET Social Science subtest 1
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- this book was a disappointment
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A practical, proven resource to help students pass the AP* World History exam In 2004, approximately 47,000 students took AP World History exam, a 39 percent increase over 2003. With more schools offering AP World History every year, the number of students taking the test will increase significantly. CliffsAP World History includes subject reviews in easy-to-follow outline form, sample multiple-choice questions with answers throughout, plus three full-length practice tests (more than the competition) complete with answers and explanations. Historically a favorite with students, CliffsNotes help make exam anxiety ancient history! *AP is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.
Customer Reviews:
not at all formatted for the AP world test!.......2007-05-05
Last year I decided to be a good history student and get all my facts straight for the exam. I read many reviews and completed all the practice tests and essays. After exhausting Barrons, Princeton, and Kaplan..all of which were helpful in one way or another my mom bought me this book.
I opened it up, eager for a little more practice. Being already familiar with the AP format, I quickly realized this book was way off base. Sure it talks about world history, but not in the same focus or emohasis as the ap test. Furthermore the multiple choice questions are weird and ridiculous. This book really will not help you at all. After reading the first chapter and some practice questions i was fed up and returned the book. Instead of wasting my time with this Cliffs, I reread prince/barrons/kaplan.....much better books.
Great tool for the CSET Social Science subtest 1.......2006-09-18
Because there is not a good resource specifically for the CSET single subject, I used this book as my main study source. It will still take a great deal of time to read through and retain all the information, but it's the history of the world -- what do you expect? It is not too brief and yet not too windy. The porridge is just right.
Very disappointing.......2006-04-29
I bought this book on amazon.com, and I was judging it mainly on the table of contents. Big mistake.
This book probably has some great information, and it just might be useful if it were about 150 pp. shorter, or if I had another 1/2 year to study.
My main problems with the CliffsAP World History book:
1)small font and drawn-out sentence structure
--this is a review guide, but it's about 1/4 as long as my actual text book. There is no possible way for me to read and retain all the information. The author insists on writing in essay form, instead of breaking down the material in an easy to process way. The book is about 300pp, the font is small, and the practice tests take up way less room than average.
2)There are no timelines, no diagrams, no pictures. Even the practice tests exclude these things. This is misleading and just plain upsetting, because it is common knowledge that the AP test itself has many questions involving map+artistic interpretation. Also, timelines, charts, etc, can be very good for review. Using this book, it took me more than 15 minutes to figure out the order of the Chinese dynasties--something that could have been interpreted from a timeline in mere seconds.
3) This book includes almost no info on how the AP itself is scored.
In conclusion, I would not recommend this book to anyone. Even the practice tests are flawed and misleading--and there is not even a way to calculate a prospective score.
Such a disappointment, considering how wonderful the CliffsAP Bio book is.
this book was a disappointment .......2006-04-29
this book did not help me i am a very smart ap world student and this book was a disappointment, i was soooo sad, cuz this book was so crappy, the only thing i recognized was the reneissance. i can not tell you how disappointed i was. the test talked about mongols, mongold what are mongols i found myself asking, i dont remember mongols, there are mongols on this test??? THIS WASNT IN MY EUROPEAN HISTORY BOOK!?! DONT BUY THIS OR THE MONGOLS WILL HATE U CUZ THEY DONT GET MENTIONED
fantastic.......2006-04-25
This book ranks up there with the Barron's and the PR World History book.
The tests at the end of the book are very well written, and there are 3 of them more than the Barron's and PR, so if you want some last minute studying or just to take the tests I would pick up a copy of the Cliffnotes book.
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From the Beginnings to 1500, Chapters 1-22 This groundbreaking world history text has, in its first edition, become a market leader by offering a fresh, global perspective on the past. The text is unique in approach; covering the world as a whole, examining the formations and development of the world’s major societies (“traditions”), and also systematically exploring cross-cultural interactions and exchanges that have been some of the most effective agents of change in all of world history (“encounters”). In addition, the authors have taken great care in constructing a coherent vision of the past that is not weighed down by a mass of detail, thus enabling instructors to incorporate additional readings of their choosing. Finally the text emphasizes that historical processes work themselves out through the lives and experiences of individual human beings, opening each chapter with an account of individual experiences that illuminate themes in that chapter. The second edition includes scholarship updates throughout and revisions to organization and content.
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HORRIBLE text.......2007-05-31
The WORST history text I've ever had the displeasure of reading. My poor professor had just started, and they had selected this for history class without his consent. We hardly ever used it after the first 2 months. Professors, seriously, choose a different book. There are hundreds better than this.
HORRIBLE text.......2007-05-31
The WORST history text I've ever had the displeasure of reading. My poor professor had just started, and they had selected this for history class without his consent. We hardly ever used it after the first 2 months. Professors, seriously, choose a different book. There are hundreds better than this.
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Student Study Guide for use with "Traditions&Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1500, 3rd edition."
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