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Doing recent history : on privacy, copyright, video games, institutional review boards, activist scholarship, and history that talks back /

Recent history--the 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 p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Potter, Claire Bond, 1958- (Editor ), Romano, Renee Christine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2012.
Colección:Since 1970.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Just over our shoulder : the pleasures and perils of writing the recent past / Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter
  • pt. 1. Framing the issues
  • Not dead yet : my identity crisis as a historian of the recent past / Renee C. Romano
  • Working without a script : reflections on teaching recent American history / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
  • pt. 2. Access to the archives
  • Opening archives on the recent American past : reconciling the ethics of access and the ethics of privacy / Laura Clark Brown and Nancy Kaiser
  • Who owns your archive? : historians and the challenge of intellectual property law / Gail Drakes
  • pt. 3. Working with living subjects
  • The Berkeley compromise : oral history, human subjects, and the meaning of "research" / Martin Meeker
  • The presence of the past : iconic moments and the politics of interviewing in Birmingham / Willoughby Anderson
  • When radical feminism talks back : taking an ethnographic turn in the living past / Claire Bond Potter
  • pt. 4. Technology and the practice of recent history
  • Do historians watch enough TV? : broadcast news as a primary source / David Greenberg
  • Playing the past : the video game simulation as recent American history / Jeremy K. Saucier
  • Eternal flames : the translingual imperative in the study of World War II memories / Alice Yang and Alan S. Christy
  • pt. 5. Crafting narratives
  • When the present disrupts the past : narrating home care / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
  • "Cult" knowledge : the challenges of studying new religious movements in America / Julius H. Bailey.