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    Power, Truth, and Fiction

    by Andrew Prescott, Alison Wiggins ...
    Series series Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature
    Chapter 23 is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license and is free to read or download from Oxford Academic. Archives have never been more complex, expansive, or ubiquitous. Gargantuan in scale and conception yet never sufficient or complete, the archive is on the one hand a space for empowerment and expression and on the other an instrument of constraint and repression. The way in ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

  • Bess of Hardwick’s Letters

    Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture

    by Alison Wiggins ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527–1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison Wiggins uncovers the wide range of uses to which Bess put letters: they were vital to her engagement in the overlapping realms of politics, patronage, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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    The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

    by Matthew d'Ancona ...
    Welcome to the Post-Truth era— a time in which the art of the lie is shaking the very foundations of democracy and the world as we know it. The Brexit vote; Donald Trump’s victory; the rejection of climate change science; the vilification of immigrants; all have been based on the power to evoke feelings and not facts. So what does it all mean and how can we champion truth in in a time of lies and ... Read more

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  • Media in History

    An Introduction to the Meanings and Transformations of Communication over Time

    by Jukka Kortti ...
    Since media is omnipresent in our lives, it is crucial to understand the complex means and dimensions of media in history, and how we have arrived at the current digital culture. Media in History addresses the increasing multidisciplinary need to comprehend the meanings and significances of media development through a variety of different approaches. Providing a concise, accessible and analytical ... Read more

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  • The Case for Books

    Past, Present, and Future

    by Robert Darnton ...
    The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before -- and in some cases, affect and redirect the sway of history. Today, nearly one million books are published each year. But is the era of the book as we know it -- ... Read more

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  • The Populist Delusion

    by Neema Parvini ...
    The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America since the Nixon era, which carried him into the presidency. Seen widely as a vindication of the people over elites, his failure to bring about any meaningful change was then seen as an aberration, a departure from a natural state where the people are sovereign and their representatives govern by their ... Read more

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  • Profession 2011

    by Sidonie Smith, David Palumbo-Liu, Françoise Lionnet, Robert Warrior, Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer, Nancy K. Miller, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Hillary Chute, Gillian L. Whitlock, Brian Rotman, Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, Stephen Olsen, Steve Anderson, Tara McPherson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Bethany Nowviskie, Jerome McGann, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Reed Way Dasenbrock, Richard Yarborough, Joyce Kinkead, Laurie Grobman, Gillian Gane, David Porter ...
    This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer, Robert Warrior, and Gillian L. Whitlock. The issue also features a section on evaluating digital ... Read more

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  • The Content Machine

    Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network

    by Michael Bhaskar ...
    Series series Anthem Publishing Studies
    Publishing is in crisis. Publishing has always been in crisis, but today’s version, fuelled by the digital boom, has some frightening symptoms. Trade publishers see their mid-lists hollowed, academic customers face budgetary pressures from higher education spending cuts, and educational publishers encounter increased competition across their markets. But over the centuries, forced change has been ... Read more

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  • Cataloging the World

    Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age

    by Alex Wright ...
    The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of harnessing its intellectual output. The timeless quest for wisdom has been as much about information storage and retrieval as creative genius. In Cataloging the World, Alex Wright ... Read more

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  • The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

    by Zachary Schrag ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.Zachary Schrag begins by ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of John Berger's Ways of Seeing

    by Emmanouil Kalkanis ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly ... Read more

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  • The History Manifesto

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    How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history ... Read more

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