A. Curthoys & A. McGrath 
How to Write History that People Want to Read [PDF ebook] 

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Drawn from decades of experience, this is a concise and highly practical guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history academic historians, public historians, professional historians, family historians and students of all levels the book includes a wide range of examples from many genres and styles.

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Table of Content

Acknowledgments Introduction: Navigating History in the 21st century Which History to Tell? Who is your History for? Crying in the Archives History in 3D: Visual, Oral and Material Sources How to Avoid Writer’s Block Once upon a Time: Beginnings and Endings Narrative, Plot, Action! Styling Pasts for Presents Character and Emotion Footnote Fetishism: Quotes and Notes Tough Love: Editing and Revising Epilogue: The After Party Marketing, Celebrating and Reviews Notes Index

About the author

ANN CURTHOYS Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. In addition to writing about historical theory and method, she has written about many facets of Australian history, especially the relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Her previous books include
Freedom Ride: A Freedomrider Remembers (2002) and (with Mary Spongberg and Barbara Caine),
A Companion to Women’s Historical Writing (Palgrave, 2005).

ANN MCGRATH Professor of History at the Australian National University, Australia. She has written numerous books and articles, including
‘Born in the Cattle’: Aborigines in Cattle Country (1987) and with Pat Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake and Marian Quartly, co-authored
Creating a Nation (1994). Mc Grath has won various prizes for writing and has worked as a historian on public enquiries and commissions, has made television documentaries, curated museum exhibitions and developed pod-streaming history projects.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 265 ● ISBN 9780230304963 ● File size 2.9 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4895445 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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