Processing the past: contesting authority in history and the archives

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This lively book explores the changes taking place in history and the archives as a result of new concepts, practices, and technologies. Among other issues, it raises the question of what future historical archives will be like if scholars and archivists cannot understand each others' work.

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Full title :Processing the past : contesting authority in history and the archives / Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg.

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Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

Originally published: 2011.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 257 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199964086, 0199964084, 9780199740543, 0199740542
oclc:ocn980734156
LC Classification:CD950
Dewey Decimal:025.2

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On the Intersections of Archives and History -- Part One. The Emergence of the Archival Divide: 1. Authoritative history and authoritative archives -- 2. The turn away from historical authority in the archives -- 3. Archival authorities and new technologies -- 4. The turn away from archival authority in history -- 5. Archival essentialism and the archival divide -- Part Two. Processing the past: 6. The social memory problem -- 7. Contested archives, contested sources -- 8. The archivist as activist in the production of (historical) knowledge -- 9. Rethinking archival politics: trust, truth, and the law -- 10. Archives and the cyberinfrastructure -- 11. Can archives and history reconnect: bridging the archival divide -- Notes -- Index.

Subjects

Archives -- Innovations Archives -- Méthodologie Archives -- Methodology Archives -- Technological innovations Gestion de l'information Gestion des connaissances Histoire -- Méthodologie Historiography History -- Methodology Information Management Information resources management Knowledge management