Editing Historical Documents by Steven Burg
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in the introduction, as well as at those who are new to the craft and want to know how to begin work on publishing historical documents of interest to them.
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would provide easy access to the innumerable issues and practices that they daily deal with in their professionEditing Historical Documents provides a wonderfully diverse examples of current documentary practice with full citations to the sources used as examples.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
Michael E. Stevens is Wisconsin State Historian Emeritus and the author or editor of nearly thirty articles and thirteen books. He has won the Gambrinus Prize for the Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger and the Association for Documentary Editing's Lyman Butterfield Award for career contributions in historical research, teaching, and documentary editing. Stevens earned his PhD in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was editor and director of publications for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History from 1978-1987, and held various positions at the Wisconsin Historical Society from 1987-2013, including state historian, state historic preservation officer, and division administrator.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780761989608 |
| ISBN 10 | 0761989609 |
| Title | Editing Historical Documents |
| Author | Steven Burg |
| Series | American Association For State And Local History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Rowman And Littlefield Publishers |
| Year published | 1997-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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