Historical editors have long wanted a reliable handbook that would provide easy access to the innumerable issues and practices that they daily deal with in their profession. <i>Editing Historical Documents</i> provides a wonderfully diverse examples of current documentary practice with full citations to the sources used as examples. With an emphasis on the descriptive rather than the prescriptive, this guide shows the range of options available to editors as they make the choices that will affect their editions and determine the policies and styles for the best possible rendering of their documentary collections. The handbook couples a lively, clearly written narrative of theory and practice with a selection of concrete examples drawn from the wisdom of generations of historical editors. The handbook is logically arranged and is readily accessible to the novice as well as the experienced documentary editor.

- John P. Kaminski, Association for Documentary Editing,

This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction, as well as at those who are new to the craft and want to know how to begin work on publishing historical documents of interest to them.
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This authors of this guide aim to provide a reliable resource and easy access to the innumerable issues and practices that historical editors deal with daily in their profession.

chapter 1 About the Authors
chapter 2 Preface
chapter 3 Introduction
chapter 4 What, Why, How and for Whom?
chapter 5 Selection and Arrangement of Documents
chapter 6 General Principles of Transcription and Proofreading
chapter 7 Transcription: Types of Sources
chapter 8 Presenting the Text
chapter 9 Principles of Annotation
chapter 10 Forms of Annotation
chapter 11 Special Issues of Access and Indexing
chapter 12 Front and Back Matter
chapter 13 Bibliography and Short Titles
chapter 14 Index

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In partnership with Rowman & Littlefield, the American Association for State and Local History Book Series addresses issues critical to the field of state and local history through interpretive, intellectual, scholarly, and educational texts. To submit a proposal or manuscript to the series, please request proposal guidelines from AASLH headquarters: To submit a proposal or manuscript to the series, please request proposal guidelines from AASLH headquarters: AASLH Editorial Board, 2021 21st Ave. South, Suite 320, Nashville, Tennessee 37212. Telephone: (615) 320-3203. Website: aaslh.org. https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/RL/SLH/American%20Association-for-State-and-Local-History

Series Editor: Rebecca Shrum

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780761989608
Publisert
1997-10-02
Utgiver
AltaMira Press; AltaMira Press
Vekt
426 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
264

Om bidragsyterne

Michael E. Stevens and Steven B. Burg are both at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.