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Aug 3, 2022 · A comparative primary source reader for the history of the world from its earliest origins to roughly the early modern period.
Jun 28, 2024 · "World History to 1500," volume 1, by Anna Kordas, Ryan J. Lynch, Brooke Nelson, and Julie Tatlock is an excellent survey that will work well for the first of two semesters of a college introductory course in global history for majors or nonmanors.
Abu Bakr 11.2 The Arab-Islamic Conquests and the First Islamic States, 11.2 The Arab-Islamic Conquests and the First Islamic States, 11.3 Islamization and Religious Rule under Islam. Abu Hureyra 2.3 The Neolithic Revolution. Abu Karib As’ad 10.3 The Kingdoms of Aksum and Himyar.
- Unobtrusive methods
- Principles of research design
- Hypothetico–deductive design
- The ethnographic–inductive design
- Rationale and problems
- Ethics and research ownership
In 1966, Eugene Webb, Donald Campbell, Richard Schwartz and Lee Sechrest published a book entitled Unobtrusive Measures: Non-Reac-tive Research in the Social Sciences. A witty and clever book, it introduced readers to the study of physical traces, archival work, simple observation and the use of hardware. ‘Chapter nine’ con-tained only Cardinal New...
PRINCIPLES OF RESEARCH DESIGN Most books or articles on research design begin with abstract principles and end in one of two ways: either the advice concludes with an example or, alternatively, with a short discussion of how research reports should be presented. The abstract principles intro-duce difficult ideas such as ‘conceptual definitions’, ‘p...
The hypothetico–deductive design is so called because it tests hypotheses (hypothetico) and it does this by testing a general theory on a particular sample of cases. It moves, therefore, from the general idea/theory/hypotheses to the particular (deductive) sample of a study. The first section of this kind of research report is the literature review...
The ethnographic–inductive design is so called because it has often been favoured by anthropologists in their fieldwork. Anthropologists develop a picture of society through a multitude or combination of methods. These primarily include observations of one sort or another but also include some interviews, the use of informants, and the study of phy...
As I mentioned earlier the main influences behind the hypothetico– deductive design are the quantitative approaches to the social sciences. These approaches have had a number of philosophical influences which were important in their developing and justifying this approach. Quantitative researchers believe that their research designs are scientific....
Many people write alone. They design a study, collect experiences or data, go into a room somewhere and write all about it. Many theses are written this way. But beyond the writing of the solitary worker, many others work collaboratively in matters of design, data collection and analysis, and finally jointly write the report or publications which s...
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Dec 21, 2023 · World History Since 1500: An Open and Free Textbook is designed to cover world history from 1500 to the present in 15 chapters. The OER-supported textbook can be downloaded as a pdf or viewed online.
Chapter Outline. 1.1 Developing a Global Perspective. 1.2 Primary Sources. 1.3 Causation and Interpretation in History. What is history? Is it simply a record of things people have done? Is it what writer Maya Angelou suggested—a way to meet the pain of the past and overcome it?
