Book ID: CBB000201612

Historical Information Science: An Emerging Unidiscipline (2001)

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McCrank, Lawrence J. (Author)


Information Today


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: ix + 1192 pp.
Language: English

Description Discusses primarily electronic information sources and its relation to history, historical research, trends in historiography, and history teaching.


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Review Ennis, Lisa A. (2003) Review of "Historical Information Science: An Emerging Unidiscipline". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (p. 91). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Burke, Colin
Anja-Silvia Goeing
Crooks, Roderic N.
Duguid, Paul
Alex Wright
Mark P. D. Burgess
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Research in Philosophy and Technology
Publishers
Princeton University Press
MIT Press
The MIT Press
Texere
Rowman & Littlefield
Pantheon Books
Concepts
Information science
Information technology
Computers and computing
Information theory
Technology and society
Methods of communication; media
People
Alger Hiss, 1904-1996
Field, Herbert Haviland (1868-1921)
Turing, Alan Mathison
Shannon, Claude Elwood
Otlet, Paul
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Barcelona (Spain)
Catalonia (Spain)
Switzerland
Europe
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