Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

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...concise yet complete in content...a friendly and authoritative tone, yet accessible to both the reader and the professor. -- H-Net Reviews, March 2006

...excellent overview of presenting historical material online. -- History News, Winter 2007

This book will long remain a vade mecum for dedicated amateurs and professionals working in the historical and social scientific fields. -- Choice Reviews Online, March 2006

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"The definitive introductory guide. . . . In an online world marked by evanescence, this book will long remain a vade mecum for dedicated amateurs and professionals."—Choice

"This is an important book that fills an important niche: a careful and comprehensive report to the field on the development and possibilities of online history, enhanced by a thoughtful set of conceptual and technical recommendations for novice online historians showing them how they might go about launching, sustaining, and preserving an online digital history project. The team that produced this manuscript at the Center for History and New Media is arguably the most advanced group working on digital history in the United States today."—Stephen Brier, The Graduate Center, CUNY

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Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (August 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812219236
• ISBN-13: 978-0812219234
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #70,642 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Digital history - indispensable, yet a good read, April 2, 2006

By	Robert L. Seaver "Robert Seaver, M,D." (Holyoke, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Practical. comprehensive,philosophical guide for any web user. This book is extensively annotated and illustrated - Deft and witty, it is a boon to academics and the rest of us in understanding the revolution to the way we think about framing our world, it's past and present and preserving it in digital form accurately efficiently and cheaply.

7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and amusing, October 24, 2005

By	A. M. Cohen - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A remarkable mix of history and "xml", presented with a readable and often amusing text. The "screenshot" examples were very helpful.