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" Social history : "
Miles Fairburn
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BL
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654819
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| Main Entry
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Fairburn, Miles
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Social history : : problems, strategies, and methods /\ Miles Fairburn
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viii, 325 pages ;; 23 cm
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0312221231
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: 9780312221232
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: 031222124X
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: 9780312221249
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: 0333615867
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: 9780333615867
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: 0333615875
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: 9780333615874
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Abstract
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Drawing examples from some of the classic works in the discipline, in this wide-ranging text Miles Fairburn systematically examines the standard methodological problems that confront social historians today. Intended for advanced students and practising historians, although of interest at an introductory level also, the book covers a range of problems. They include the problem of absent social categories; of generalising from fragmentary evidence; of deciding when things are different or similar; of establishing important causes; of determining the reliability of socially constructed data; of ascertaining appropriate concepts; and of evaluating and testing rival explanations
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Social history-- Methodology
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| Dewey Classification
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306/.09
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HN28F35 1999
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