Gunn Simon, Faire Lucy (eds.) Research Methods for History

Edinburgh: University Press, 2012. — 256 p.Designed to serve postgraduate students and academics teaching research methods, this series provides discipline-specific volumes which explore the possibilities and limitations of a range of research methods applicable to the subject in question.Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Why Bother with Method?
Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire
The Essentials
Working With/In the Archives
Michelle T. King
Approaching Visual Materials
Ludmilla Jordanova
Material Culture
Alan Mayne
Landscape and Place
Jo Guldi
Researching Individuals and Groups
Collective Biography
Krista Cowman
Life Stories and Historical Analysis
Alistair Thomson
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
GIS, Spatial Technologies and Digital Mapping
Keith D. Lilley
Document to Database and Spreadsheet
R. J. Morris
Deciphering Meanings
Reading Language as a Historical Source
Julie-Marie Strange
Analysing Behaviour as Performance
Simon Gunn
Rethinking Categories
Ethics and Historical Research
William Gallois
Time, Temporality and History
Prashant Kidambi
Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements