Processing the past
Subtitle: contesting authority in history and the archives
By: Francis X. Blouin Jr., William G. Rosenberg
Contributors: Rosenberg, William G.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780199740543
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Authoritative history and authoritative archives; title: The turn away from historical authority in the archives; title: Archival authorities and new technologies; title: The turn away from archival authority in history; title: Archival essentialism and the archival divide; title: The social memory problem; title: Contested archives, contested sources; title: The archivist as activist in the production of (historical) knowledge; title: Rethinking archival politics : trust, truth, and the law; title: Archives and the cyberinfrastructure; title: Can archives and history reconnect : bridging the archival divide.