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Historical Evidence and Argument
AvDavid Henige
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
309 kr
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Historians know about the past because they examine the evidence. But what exactly is ""evidence,"" how do historians know what it means - and how can we trust them to get it right? Historian David Henige tackles such questions of historical reliability head on in his skeptical, unsparing, and acerbically witty ""Historical Evidence and Argument"". ""Systematic doubt"" is his watchword, and he practices what he preaches through a variety of insightful assessments of historical controversies for example, over the dating of artifacts and the textual analysis of translated documents. Skepticism, Henige contends, forces us to recognize the limits of our knowledge, but it is also a positive force that stimulates new scholarship to counter it.
Serial Bibliographies and Abstracts in History
An Annotated Guide
AvDavid Henige
Inbunden, Engelska, 1986
797 kr
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Numbers from Nowhere
The American Indian Contact Population Debate
AvDavid Henige
Inbunden, Engelska, 1998
565 kr
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In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In Numbers From Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably wrong.Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Henige illustrates the use and abuse of numerical data throughout history. He shows that extrapolation of numbers is entirely subjective, however masked it may be by arithmetic, and he questions what constitutes valid evidence in historical and scientific scholarship.
Numbers from Nowhere
The American Indian Contact Population Debate
AvDavid Henige
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
337 kr
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In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In Numbers From Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably wrong.Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Henige illustrates the use and abuse of numerical data throughout history. He shows that extrapolation of numbers is entirely subjective, however masked it may be by arithmetic, and he questions what constitutes valid evidence in historical and scientific scholarship.
Africanist Librarianship in an Era of Change
AvVictoria K. Evalds,David Henige
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
832 kr
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While the essays collected in this volume address a number of issues, they all share the same aim of placing Africanist librarianship in the contexts of our times. Many essays set high value on service to present and future African library users, through the usage of such means as bibliographic instruction and the accumulation and arrayal of information in databases and websites. Still others look to the theme of outreach because, unfortunately, the effect of the electronic revolution, like that of many other revolutions, was that the rich got richer and the poor poorer. The post-colonial information gap (the book and journal 'famine') in Africa, which was only exacerbated by independence, has become almost unbridgeable in the last few decades. As these essays indicate, Africanist librarians and other scholars have done - and are continuing to do - whatever possible to alleviate this, whether by training, exchanging information, providing resources, or establishing partnerships with long-term objectives.

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David Henige – författare

Historical Evidence and Argument

Serial Bibliographies and Abstracts in History

Numbers from Nowhere

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Africanist Librarianship in an Era of Change

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