Processing the past :

Authoritative history and authoritative archives -- The turn away from historical authority in the archives -- Archival authorities and new technologies -- The turn away from archival authority in history -- Archival essentialism and the archival divide -- The social memory problem -- Contested arch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg.
Other Authors: Rosenberg, William G.
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Published: Oxford University Press, c2011.
New York :
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:06eeedc9-b2bf-4d6c-a641-5a945fab84cc
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Summary:Authoritative history and authoritative archives -- The turn away from historical authority in the archives -- Archival authorities and new technologies -- The turn away from archival authority in history -- Archival essentialism and the archival divide -- The social memory problem -- Contested archives, contested sources -- The archivist as activist in the production of (historical) knowledge -- Rethinking archival politics : trust, truth, and the law -- Archives and the cyberinfrastructure -- Can archives and history reconnect : bridging the archival divide.
Published:c2011.