Processing the past : contesting authority in history and the archives
"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" -- Prové de l'editor
x, 257 pàgines ; 24 cm
9780199964086, 0199964084
1055881062
Conté: Introduction: On the intersections of archives and history
Part one: The emergence of the archival divide
1. Authoritative history and athoritative archives
2. The turn away from historical authority in the archives
3. Archival authorities and new technologies
4. The turn away from atchival 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 cyberinfrastucture
11. Can history and archives reconnect: bridging the archival divide
Notes
Index