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Author : Scott Cline
Release : 2021-09-30
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Book Synopsis Archival Virtue by : Scott Cline
Download or read book Archival Virtue written by Scott Cline. This book was released on 2021-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herman Paul
Release : 2022-09-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Historians' Virtues by : Herman Paul
Download or read book Historians' Virtues written by Herman Paul. This book was released on 2022-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do historians so often talk about objectivity, empathy, and fair-mindedness? What roles do such personal qualities play in historical studies? And why does it make sense to call them virtues rather than skills or habits? Historians' Virtues is the first publication to explore these questions in some depth. With case studies from across the centuries, the Element identifies major discontinuities in how and why historians talked about the marks of a good scholar. At the same time, it draws attention to long-term legacies that last until today. Virtues were, and are, invoked in debates over the historian's task. They reveal how historians position themselves vis-à-vis political regimes, religious traditions, or neoliberal university systems. More importantly, they show that historical study not only requires knowledge and technical skills, but also makes demands on the character of its practitioners. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Samuel Storrs Howe
Release : 1915
Genre : Iowa
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Book Synopsis Annals of Iowa by : Samuel Storrs Howe
Download or read book Annals of Iowa written by Samuel Storrs Howe. This book was released on 1915. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather MacNeil
Release : 2017-01-09
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Currents of Archival Thinking by : Heather MacNeil
Download or read book Currents of Archival Thinking written by Heather MacNeil. This book was released on 2017-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With new technologies and additional goals driving their institutions, archives are changing drastically. This book shows how the foundations of archival practice can be brought forward to adapt to new environments—while adhering to the key principles of preservation and access. Archives of all types are experiencing a resurgence, evolving to meet new environments (digital and physical) and new priorities. To meet those changes, professional archivist education programs—now one of the more active segments of LIS schools—are proliferating as well. This book identifies core archival theories and approaches and how those interact with major issues and trends in the field. The essays explore the progression of archival thinking today, discussing the nature of archives in light of present-day roles for archivists and archival institutions in the preservation of documentary heritage. Examining new conceptualizations and emerging frameworks through the lenses of core archival practice and theory, the book covers core foundational topics, such as the nature of archives, the ruling concept of provenance, and the principal functions of archivists, discussing each in the context of current and future environments and priorities. Several new essays on topics of central importance not treated in the first edition are included, such as digital preservation and the influence of new technologies on institutional programs that facilitate archival access, advocacy, and outreach; the changing legal context of archives and archival work; and the archival collections of private persons and organizations. Readers will also learn how communities of various kinds intersect with the archival mission and how other disciplines' perspectives on archives can open new avenues.
Author : Jeroen van Dongen
Release : 2017-12-07
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities by : Jeroen van Dongen
Download or read book Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities written by Jeroen van Dongen. This book was released on 2017-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed ‘epistemic virtues’ such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences and humanities. It assists in addressing such questions as: What kind of perspective would enable us to compare organic chemists in their labs with paleographers in the Vatican Archives, or anthropologists on a field trip with mathematicians poring over their formulas? While the concept of epistemic virtues has previously been discussed, primarily in the contexts of the history and philosophy of science, this volume is the first to enlist the concept in bridging the gap between the histories of the sciences and the humanities. Chapters research whether epistemic virtues can serve as a tool to transcend the institutional disciplinary boundaries and thus help to attain a ‘post-disciplinary’ historiography of modern knowledge. Readers will gain a contextualization of epistemic virtues in time and space as the book shows that scholars themselves often spoke in terms of virtue and vice about their tasks and accomplishments. This collection of essays opens up new perspectives on questions, discourses, and practices shared across the disciplines, even at a time when the neo-Kantian distinction between sciences and humanities enjoyed its greatest authority. Scholars including historians of science and of the humanities, intellectual historians, virtue epistemologists, and philosophers of science will all find this book of particular interest and value.
