Conducting Historical Research: The Case of "Oriental Cairo"

Getman, David; Sanders, Paula

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Getman, David; Sanders, Paula

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2006

Abstract

This course guides you through how to conduct historical research by conducting a case study on Douglas Sladen's "Oriental Cairo: City of the 'Arabian Nights'" (1911), a work included in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). It introduces some standard research techniques used by historians, such as establishing a subject's biography and placing a work in context, and it also explores how to use library resources such as online catalogs and databases.

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Getman, David and Sanders, Paula. "Conducting Historical Research: The Case of "Oriental Cairo"." (2006) Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/109665.

Keyword

Humanities; British Empire; Cairo (Egypt); History -- Research; History --Methodology; More... library research; library resources; Oriental Cairo; People; Sladen; Douglas Brooke Wheelton; TIMEA; Travelers in the Middle East Archive

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Rice University

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This educational work is part of the TIMEA - Travelers in the Middle East Archive https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/123456789/1

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https://hdl.handle.net/1911/109665

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