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elzbethmrgn's Reviews (667)
Too short! Just a tiny taster, but now I *really* can't wait for Allegiant.
Doing History: Research and Writing in the Digital Age
Michael J. Galgano, J. Chris Arndt, Raymond M. Hyser
I was definitely too far along in my degree to get any real use out of this book by the time it was a prescribed textbook, but I would recommend for first-year historiography classes.
Heavy on the purple prose and hyperbole, but light on the details. The details thing is to be expected in book covering a thousand years or so. The love-letter to Richard I of England was pretty spectacular, though. You could do worse for Baby's First Crusade Overview.
Zero excuses for the lack of referencing, though, even on directly quoted material. Be an academic textbook, or be a short introduction. Don't try and fail at both.
Zero excuses for the lack of referencing, though, even on directly quoted material. Be an academic textbook, or be a short introduction. Don't try and fail at both.
Interesting, but far too short to provide anything in-depth on any of the religions covered. It's intended as a university-level textbook and I think it does a good job in that respect, although it does demand a certain base-level of knowledge on each of the religions discussed. Due to the authors (and probably the scope of the project), much of the discussion is broad, generic, and in modern religion especially it is limited to North America.