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Can I read Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Ser.) on EtoBox?
Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Ser.) by Claire Bond Potter; Alan Christy; Alice Yang; David Greenberg; Eileen Boris; Gail Drakes; Jennifer Klein; Jeremy Saucier; Julius Bailey; Laura Brown; Martin Meeker; Nancy Kaiser; Shelley Lee; Willoughby Anderson; Renee C. Romano is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Ser.) about?
Recent historythe very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become arguably the most exciting and talked-about part of the discipline. Despite this rich tradition and growing popularity, historians have engaged in little discussion about the specific methodological, political, and ethical issues related to writing about the recent past. The twelve essays in this collection explore the challenges of writing histories of recent events where visibility is inherently imperfect, hindsight and perspective are lacking, and historiography is underdeveloped. Those who write about events that have taken place since 1970 encounter exciting challenges that are both familiar and foreign to scholars of a more distant past, including suspicions that their research is not historical enough, negotiation with living witnesses who have a very strong stake in their own repre
Who reads Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Ser.)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Claire Bond Potter; Alan Christy; Alice Yang; David Greenberg; Eileen Boris; Gail Drakes; Jennifer Klein; Jeremy Saucier; Julius Bailey; Laura Brown; Martin Meeker; Nancy Kaiser; Shelley Lee; Willoughby Anderson; Renee C. Romano
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780820343716
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, American Studies, Humanities
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