The Age of the Witness and the Age of Surveillance: Romani Holocaust Testimony and the Perils of Digital Scholarship.
For over half a century, historians have made ample use of witness testimonies. Efforts to preserve the accounts of marginalized people in particular have broadened the range of voices available to us and significantly expanded the field. Yet we have paid too little attention to the potentially dist...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 125; no. 4; pp. 1205 - 1232 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2020
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