You pick up a book called Australia in the Penal Colony Years. When reading it, you notice that the author
really only discusses the lives and ideas of five individuals based upon their diaries. The book is very microlevel.
It only tells about the particular people with no generalization or integrating themes. This book
illustrates which problem with secondary sources?
A) Historians often use vague concepts with inconsistent definitions to organize the primary sources they
read.
B) Historians often have an individualistic bias and tend to focus on actions of the specific individuals
revealed in primary sources.
C) Historians select a tiny fraction of the mass of information they read, but the selection process is largely
unseen and unknown.
D) Historians, especially those who write in a narrative form, separate out significant from trivial
information, but rarely make their social theories explicit.
B
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