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Name:	Conducting Historical Research: The Case of "Oriental Cairo"
ID:	col10291
Language:	English (en)
Summary:	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.
Collection Subtype:	Course
Subject:	Humanities
Keywords:	British Empire, Cairo (Egypt), History -- Research, History --Methodology, library research, library resources, Oriental Cairo, People, Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, TIMEA, Travelers in the Middle East Archive
License:	Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0

Authors:	David Getman (dpgetman@rice.edu), Paula Sanders (sanders@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders:	David Getman (dpgetman@rice.edu), Paula Sanders (sanders@rice.edu)
Maintainers:	David Getman (dpgetman@rice.edu), Paula Sanders (sanders@rice.edu), Lisa Spiro (lspiro@sparta.rice.edu)

Latest version:	1.4 (history)
First publication date:	Jun 20, 2005 2:23 pm GMT-5
Last revision to collection:	Oct 23, 2006 5:00 am GMT-5

Version History

Version:	1.4 Oct 23, 2006 5:00 am GMT-5 by Lisa Spiro
Changes:	updated links

Version:	1.3 Apr 28, 2006 10:58 am GMT-5 by Lisa Spiro
Changes:	changed title edited text

Version:	1.2 Apr 27, 2006 9:56 am GMT-5 by Chuck Bearden
Changes:	Added new roles.

Version:	1.1 Jul 13, 2005 1:24 pm GMT-5 by David Getman
Changes:	basic update

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