Offers step-by-step advice and instructions for organizing archives and making them available to researchers
Offers step-by-step advice and instructions for organizing archives and making them available to researchers.
In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, Northern Europe was a crucible of political, maritime and economic activity. Covering 1000 collections in various countries around the Baltic Sea (including Netherlands), this guide provides a tool for scholars studying the re…
"A Guide to Slavic Collections in the United States and Canada presents up-to-date information on 87 North American libraries that house Slavic and East European research materials, providing current details on recent acquisitions, developments in collection policies, and change…
"A Guide to Slavic Collections in the United States and Canada presents up-to-date information on 87 North American libraries that house Slavic and East European research materials, providing current details on recent acquisitions, developments in collection policies, and change…
Jean-Baptiste Colbert saw governance of the state not as the inherent ability of the king, but as a form of mechanical mastery of subjects such as medieval legal history, physics, navigation, and the price lists of nails, sails, and gunpowder. In The Information Master, Jacob So…
"The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive's content stands as a quasi-o…