The Emmet's Inch: Small History in a Digital Age.
Digitization has usually been considered a facilitator of what has been called "big" history. While digital history projects increasingly make good and sensitive use of individual and granular records and use them to bring human complexity into a larger analysis, the digitization of published materi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social History Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 963 - 990 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Summer2020
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