Researching Urban Space and the Built Environment - Paperback
Researching Urban Space and the Built Environment - Paperback
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by Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin (Author), Elaine Tierney (Author), Charlotte Wildman (Author)
Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past. Written in a clear and lively style, it equips readers with the tools to effectively plan, research and write innovative spatial histories.
By outlining and summarizing the theories and methodologies particularly pertinent to spatial research, and by providing hands-on advice on locating evidence and archives, the book supports researchers in the development of their own original projects. Through engagement with a rich array of primary evidence and useful historiographical case-studies, the guide opens up a huge variety of research possibilities. This book is the ideal research companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as independent researchers. It is especially tailored for students in history and related disciplines in the humanities encountering spatial themes and methodologies for the first time.Back Jacket
Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past. Written in a clear and lively style, it equips readers with the tools to effectively plan, research and write spatial histories.
The book explores why the 'spatial turn' matters so much to historians, and how the subject of space is a cutting-edge and interdisciplinary subject area. By outlining and summarising the theories and methodologies particularly pertinent to spatial research, and by providing hands-on advice about locating evidence and archives, the book supports readers in the development of their own original projects. Through engagement with a wide range of primary evidence, including buildings, manuscripts, oral history interviews, visual sources and material cultures, and discussion of early modern and modern historical case-studies, the guide opens up a huge variety of research possibilities. This guide is an ideal research companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as independent researchers. It is especially tailored for students in history and related disciplines encountering spatial themes and methodologies for the first time.Author Biography
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University
Elaine Tierney is a historian of design and material culture in the V&A Research Institute (VARI) Charlotte Wildman is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of ManchesterMaterials + Care
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