The Good Way to Do History
Take the title as a provocation: The Allure of the Archives. What, you may ask, could be less alluring in the digital age than an apology for deciphering words scribbled on paper several centuries ago? Even more provocative, Arlette Farge’s book first appeared in French in 1989, two years before the creation of the Web, not to mention all the subsequent technology, from search engines to smartphones, that now might make archival research look outmoded. …
Der ganze Beitrag unter http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jan/09/good-way-history/ [Bezahlschranke]