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A History of Archival Practice

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A History of Archival Practice

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A History of Archival Practice book

A History of Archival Practice

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A History of Archival Practice book

ByPaul Delsalle, Margaret Procter
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 8 August 2017
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564821
Pages 264
eBook ISBN 9781315564821
Subjects Reference & Information Science
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Delsalle, P. (2017). A History of Archival Practice (M. Procter, Trans.; 1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564821

ABSTRACT

This revised translation of the classic 1998 Une histoire de l’archivistique provides a wide-ranging international survey of developments in archival practices and management, from the ancient world to the present day.

The volume has been substantially updated to incorporate recent scholarship and provide additional examples from the English-speaking world. These new additions complement the original text and offer a broad and up-to-date survey, with examples spanning Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America. The bibliography has also been updated with new material and supplementary English language sources, making it an accessible and up-to-date resource for those working and researching in the field of archives and archival history.

This book is an essential reference volume for both archivists and historians, as well as anyone interested in the history of archives.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter

Introduction to the French edition (1998)

chapter

Introduction to the English edition

chapter 1|16 pages

The ancient world

chapter 2|16 pages

The classical world

From Greek city states to the Roman empire

chapter 3|20 pages

Archives and archival practices in Asia and Africa, antiquity to the eighteenth century

chapter 4|12 pages

Archives and archival practices in the Americas, to the eighteenth century

chapter 5|22 pages

In the chanceries and muniment rooms of medieval Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries

chapter 6|19 pages

Buildings and equipment in Western Europe, late antiquity to the seventeenth century

chapter 7|11 pages

The defining era

Simancas, the Habsburgs and the sixteenth century

chapter 8|14 pages

State bureaucracy and archival centralisation in early modern Europe

chapter 9|20 pages

Being an archivist in early modern Europe

chapter 10|13 pages

Methods and techniques for classification and arrangement in the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries

chapter 11|16 pages

Legislation, literature and practice in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

chapter 12|17 pages

Buildings and readers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

chapter 13|8 pages

Archives destroyed, protected and reconstituted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

chapter 14|10 pages

The rise of a profession in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

chapter 15|15 pages

From mutual assistance to international networks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

chapter 16|3 pages

Conclusion

The value of the historical perspective

chapter |2 pages

Afterword to the English edition

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