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Autor Melissa Adleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 dec 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781531511944
ISBN-10: 1531511945
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 224 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: Fordham University Press
ISBN-10: 1531511945
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 224 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: Fordham University Press
Notă biografică
Melissa Adler is Associate Professor at Western University (London, Ontario) in the Faculty of Information Media Studies. She is the author of Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (Fordham).
Cuprins
Prologue ix
Note on Language, Spelling, Naming, and Citationality xxiii
Introduction: "These Precious Monuments of Our Property and Our History" 1
PART 1 – ARCHIVES
1 Information as Revolutionary Action 31
2 Archives and the Making of American History 55
3 Haunted Ontologies 83
PART 2 – LIBRARIES
4 "A Blueprint of His Own Mind": Jefferson’s Libraries 115
5 The Racial Aesthetic of Jefferson’s Library Catalog 149
6 From Geography to History 173
PART 3 – MUSEUMS
7 Jefferson’s "Indian Hall" and the Doctrine of Discovery 197
8 How the American Antelope [sic] Became a Document 220
Coda: Afterlife of Information 241
Acknowledgments 257
Notes 261
Bibliography 301
Index 325
Note on Language, Spelling, Naming, and Citationality xxiii
Introduction: "These Precious Monuments of Our Property and Our History" 1
PART 1 – ARCHIVES
1 Information as Revolutionary Action 31
2 Archives and the Making of American History 55
3 Haunted Ontologies 83
PART 2 – LIBRARIES
4 "A Blueprint of His Own Mind": Jefferson’s Libraries 115
5 The Racial Aesthetic of Jefferson’s Library Catalog 149
6 From Geography to History 173
PART 3 – MUSEUMS
7 Jefferson’s "Indian Hall" and the Doctrine of Discovery 197
8 How the American Antelope [sic] Became a Document 220
Coda: Afterlife of Information 241
Acknowledgments 257
Notes 261
Bibliography 301
Index 325