Write a 5-6 page paper double spaced about the historian, emphasis their methodological choices and how they approach their sources. The goal is to familiarize yourself with their work and provide some analysis of their approach to the past in terms of movements and methods we had looked at which includes philosophical, social, and economic movements from Karl Marx, and Fredrick Engel’s.
Talk about your research process ? both are guided by the same research questions what are you interested in ? For the second book which is more of a story. She asked herself where can i look to find specific information on these specific peoples. For this book it was more a treasure hunt. What survives where this people might be mentioned. Elite guys were writing letters about her second book. Professor gets a baseline to what’s going on from first book. they get involved with trading institutions. Institutions leave records she looked in there for letters about the prince’s.
She also used online data based newspaper data based she key word searched a lot of things. She finds out about plays and there baptizism. She would also find google search where she would there birth certificate. She had to learn about all the places they went. Madagastar big island off of east africa that the princes went there. the process of her first book was having a questions and having sources to find it exploiting one source and the second book which we are referring in the essay was more of a treasure hunt.
