Writing History: A Collection by New Writers Volume 3 (Life Rattle Press New Writers Series)

Moniz, Tracy

ISBN 10: 1927023602 / ISBN 13: 9781927023600

Published by Life Rattle Press, 2013

About this Item

268 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.67 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # zk1927023602

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing History: A Collection by New Writers Volume 3 (Life Rattle Press New Writers Series)
• Publisher: Life Rattle Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1927023602
• ISBN 13: 9781927023600
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.6 kilograms

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Synopsis

Finding the story in history….

History is “an unending dialogue between the present and the past,” wrote historian and journalist Edward Hallett Carr in 1961.

This fully-revised, third edition of Writing History demonstrates how writing turns information into history and new writers into historians. The collection contains fifty-two stories about historical subjects by twenty-one new writers from History and Writing, an upper-level course in the Professional Writing and Communication Program at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

These stories offer models of original, engaging, research-based history writing, with topics as diverse as the Partition of India, residential schools, body art, Vincent van Gogh and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

The pieces in this collection combine personal observation with intellectual analysis, close observation with detailed research, and the satisfaction of knowledge with the excitement of inquiry. The writers tell stories about what happened, what it felt like and how we know about it. They remind us why history is interesting and why it matters.