Documents That Changed the Way We Live (eBook)

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2017
296 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0034-9 (ISBN)

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Documents That Changed the Way We Live -  Joseph Janes
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Documents that Changed the Way We Live looks at fifty stories, each of which describes a document, its creation and motivation, influence, importance, historical and social context, its provenance and how it got to where it is now (if still extant), and connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends.
Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines dozens of compelling stories that describe these documents; their creation, motivation, influence, importance, historical and social context, provenance; and their connections to contemporary information objects, technologies, and trends. These documents include the following:';Exaltation of Innana,' a Sumerian hymn composed c. 2300 BCE by the high priestess Enheduanna, likely the first known authorof anythingThe ';We Can Do It!' poster everybody knows is Rosie the Riveter calling women to work in the factories in World War II. Except it's not, and she isn'tJoseph McCarthy's ';list' of Communists that ruined lives and careers, because it was believed - even though it never existedThe ';He has waged cruel war' passage on slavery, deleted from the Declaration of IndependenceThe poorly designed Palm Beach County ';butterfly ballot,' on which the 2000 U.S. presidential election may have hingedAnd the lesser-known stories behind the Zapruder Film, the Watergate tapes, the Obama birth certificate, airplane black boxes, Thanksgiving, IQ tests, the Star-Spangled Banner, why Americans spell the way they do, Nobel Prizes, Wikipedia, and how you're cooking dinner tonight

Joseph Janes is Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School. A frequent speaker in the US and abroad, he is the author of several books, including Library 2020, and has written a monthly column for American Libraries magazine since 2002. He is the creator and host of Documents That Changed the World, a popular podcast series on the cultural impacts of historic documents. He holds the M.L.S. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the State University of New York at Albany as well as at Syracuse and Washington.

Liber Abaci (Arabic numerals), 1202Annals of the World, 1650Philosophical Transactions, 1665What Is the Third Estate?, 178912.Webster’s Dictionary, 182815.John Snow’s Cholera Map, 185419.Alfred Nobel’s Will, 1895The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, c190030.FDR and Thanksgiving, 193932.“We Can Do It!” Poster, 194334.Mental Disorder Diagnosis Manual, 195236.Space Needle “Sketch,”, 1959Quotations of Chairman Mao, 196541.Internet Protocol, 198146.Pope Benedict XVI’s Resignation, 2013

Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Kunst / Musik / Theater Antiquitäten
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte 2000 election • AIDS Quilt • American History • controversial history • Declaration of Independence • Elders of Zion • Exaltation of Innana • General Interest • historical interpretation • historical significance • History • important documents • Nobel prize • Obama birth certificate • Richter Scale • rosetta stone • Rosie the Riveter • Watergate • World History
ISBN-10 1-5381-0034-7 / 1538100347
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-0034-9 / 9781538100349
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