PPT-What do economic historians do?

Tirthankar Roy LSE Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics Mumbai 21 May 2016 What is economic history history of material life Why study it To answer the economic growth question why . History studies the development of Human Societies. What do Historians Study?. Historians study the development of human societies; in other words how groups of human beings evolved from the earliest times to the present. Looking at Buildings. Connoisseurship is essentially a means of judging or appreciating the value of artifacts is also its principal problem.. Style is inevitably immutable. One style does not flow seamlessly into another. Rather the intentions of each style are stated emphatically and discrete instances are judged according to a standard. To be useful stylistic nomenclature should describe visual features, however, many long-established terms--colonial and Victorian-- refer essentially to historical and political periods and tell little about the building's appearance.. Utah Studies. Answer these two questions. On your power point guide, please take a minute and answer the first two questions.. These are the questions:. What does the word history mean?. What is a historian?. L/O – To define what history is and identify how it is produced . Starter Question. – What is ‘History’? What is the ‘Past’?. Philosopher. (loud and clear): Men cannot really know the past.. L/O – To identify the problems historians face when dealing with causation. Why is Causation important?. Every historical investigation begins with the simple question – ‘. why. ?’. Identifying the most .  . Introduction. Assessment. Basic Knowledge Pre Test. Continents and Oceans Test. Timeline assignment. Quiz. 1. North America, 2. South America, 3. Africa, 4. Europe, 5. Asia, 6. Antarctica, 7. Australia . What You Will Learn…. In this chapter you will learn how historians study the ancient world to unlock the mysteries of the past. In this photo a diver examines an ancient jar off the coast of Israel.. OC1.05. Professor David Lambert. 3-4pm, 27. th. . February 2017. http://youtu.be/Df-uemc-e3w. (Christopher Columbus). Carving up space. How do historians carve up space?. What geographical units form the basis for how we interpret the past – and where do these come from?. American Historical Review. Comparative Studies in Society and History. Journal of American History. Journal of Modern History. Past & Present. Statistical tables and graphs per 1000 pages of articles: five top-cited history journals, 1945-2009. and something to write with.. Reminder: You have a Vocabulary Quiz. Agenda. How Does a Historian Work?. Lesson 1.2. What is Evidence?. A. Historians . ask questions about the information they discover from the past. Chapter 1, Lesson 4. Final Lesson. Objective. To learn what methods historians use to study the past.. What approaches do Historians use to examine past events?. Find patterns in past events. Look for causes and effects that explain how and why events happened. How do Archaeologists ANALYZE DATA and ARTIFACTS?. History. What TOOLS do historians use to unlock the secrets of the past?. Artifacts. Primary sources. Secondary Sources. Once all of the tools to unlocking the past have been collected and analyzed, how do historians DRAW CONCLUSIONS about the past?. h. istoriography and why is it important? . What we’ll do. Analyse pioneers of historical approaches. What have historians . seen . as important to study?. How have they gone about studying it?. What are the benefits and costs of the approach?. 1 The Job of the Historian. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN. At the end of this chapter you should understand .... What is history?. The work of the historian and the use of historical methods.. Different types of sources and evidence..