DIVArlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from

Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations between historians a

The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of “the archive” as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies and examine how it fos

In this witty, engaging, and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced an originaland sometimes irreverentinvestigation into how modern historiography has

As a depository of civic record and social history whose very name derives from the Greek word for town hall, the archive would seem to be a public entity, yet