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This is a guide to finding the best resources for research in History.
Last Updated: May 9, 2013 URL: http://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/history Print Guide RSS UpdatesEmail AlertsShareThis

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This guide is designed to help you get started with your library research.

Click on any of the tabs above to find information about how to locate History resources

      
     

    Tips & Tricks

    What are Secondary Sources?  Journal articles & chapters etc... written about a work of literature and offering a critical view of that work are called literary criticism.

    What are Primary Sources?  Original works of literature and uninterpreted information about an event or period of time.

    Beware Wikipedia!
    It can't be cited in academic essays (avoid sites where authors aren't accountable for contributions). 

    Evaluate! Evaluate! Evaluate!
    Be critical about everything you read

    Avoid Plaigiarism
    Don't use an author's work or ideas without referencing them (yes, even if it's not directly quoted & you've changed the words)

     

    Books of Interest

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    A Cultural History of Food - Parasecoli & Scholliers (Eds)
    ISBN: 1847883559
    A Cultural History of Food presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers nearly 3,000 years of food and its physical, spiritual, social and cultural dimensions.

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    A History of History - Alun Munslow
    ISBN: 9780415677158
    In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century,A History of History confronts several basic assumptions about the nature of history. Among these are the concept of historical realism, the belief in representationalism and the idea that the past possesses its own narrative.

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    A History of Violence - Robert Muchembled
    ISBN: 9780745647463
    Violence is so much in the news today that we may find it hard to believe that it is less prevalent than it was in the past. But this is exactly what the distinguished historian Robert Muchembled argues in this major new work on the history of violence. He shows that brutality and homicide have been in decline since the thirteenth century.

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    Concise Companion to Aboriginal History - Malcolm Prentis
    ISBN: 9781921719035
    This book provides an overview of Australian Aboriginal history from creation stories involving the Dreaming through to Aboriginal cultural and political activity in the 21st century. Its alphabetically arranged entries include biographies, historical events, pioneering work by anthropologists, historical controversies, literature and sport, and a number of social issues.

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    History Wars and the Classroom - Tony Taylor; Robert Guyver
    ISBN: 9781617355264
    This text examines how ten countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of history, especially when evaluating episodes of poor racial relations. There are also tensions between traditional/patriotic views of history teaching and reformed or 'new' history.

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    The Problem of Slavery As History - Joseph C. Miller
    ISBN: 9780300113150
    Why did slavery--an accepted evil for thousands of years--suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Joseph C. Miller turns this classic question on its head by rethinking the very nature of slavery, arguing that it must be viewed generally as a process rather than as an institution.

     

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