Introduction: On the Intersections of Archives and History
PART I: ARCHIVES, HISTORY, AND THE OPENING OF THE ARCHIVAL
DIVIDE
Chapter 1 - Authoritative History and Authoritative Archives
Chapter 2 - The Turn Away from Historical Authority in the
Archives
Chapter 3 - Archival Authorities and New Technologies
Chapter 4 - The Turn Away from Archival Authority in History
Chapter 5 - Archival Essentialism and the Archival Divide
PART II: PROCESSING THE PAST
Chapter 6 - The Social Memory Problem
Chapter 7 - Contested Archives, Contested Sources
Chapter 8 - The Archivist as Activist in the Production of
(Historical) Knowledge
Chapter 9 - Rethinking Archival Politics: Trust, Truth, and the
Law
Chapter 10 - Archives and the Cyberinfrastructure
Chapter 11 - Can Archives and History Reconnect: Bridging the
Archival Divide
Index
Francis X. Blouin Jr. is director of the Bentley Historical Library
and professor in the history department and School of Information
at the University of Michigan. From 1984 to 2004 he led an effort
to do a complete inventory of the archives of the Vatican. He has
served on the board of the Council on Library and Information
Resources.
William G. Rosenberg is Professor Emeritus of History at the
University of Michigan. He has authored, co-authored, or edited
some thirteen books on Russian and Soviet history. His interest in
archival issues developed from his responsibilities as vice
president for research of the American Historical Association. He
has also served as president of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies, and is a vice chair of the board of
trustees of the European
University at St. Petersburg.
"Blouin and Rosenberg have once again joined forces to write what
is very like a total history of the modern western archive. From
lust to dust to techno-rust, they detail the convergences and
divergences of historical authority and archival practice,
providing a sweeping and deeply researched account of the impact of
political and technological change on archives past, present and
future. As indispensably, the authors narrate the tectonic shifts
we in the last
few generations of historians and archivists have lived through
without, perhaps, fully realizing the revolution under our feet -
and under our fingertips as well. Both genealogy and prophecy,
this
book is a must read for anyone who cares about what history is and
what it will be beyond our lifetimes."--Antoinette Burton, editor,
Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History
"Processing the Past provides a compelling and well-illustrated
analysis of the growing divergence between archivists and
historians. Blouin and Rosenberg will generate constructive
reflection and discussion with this substantial work of
scholarship. They will help the community take a step towards
bridging the gap between humanists and those who would serve their
needs."--Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research, Ithaka S+R, and
author of JSTOR: A
History
"Processing the Past is a stellar work of historiography and
archival history that succinctly tackles the major methodological
and theoretical underpinnings of these two professions [i.e.
archivist and historian] as well as the transformations that have
occurred over the past 150 years."--Archival Issues
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