History of Archival Practice

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2017
Author	Author: Paul Delsalle Translator: Margaret Procter
Language	English
Number of Pages	245 pp.
Publisher	Routledge
City	London, England
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Region	Africa Asia Europe Latin America and Caribbean
Library Type	Archives and Special Collections
Chronological Period	Ancient Period (pre 500) 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 1800-1849 1850-1899 18th century 1900-1949 1950-1999
ISBN	9781409455240
Annotation	Revised translation of Une histoire de l'archivistique, published in 1998. Contents: Preface to the English edition Introduction to the French edition The ancient world The classical world : from Greek city states to the Roman Empire Archives and archival practices in Asia and Africa: from antiquity to the eighteenth century Archives and archival practices in the Americas up to the eighteenth century In the chanceries and muniment rooms of medieval Europe, fifth to fifteenth centuries Buildings and equipment in Western Europe: late antiquity to the seventeenth century The defining era : Simancas, the Habsburgs and the sixteenth century Bureaucracy and archival centralisation in early modern Europe Being an archivist in early modern Europe Methods and techniques for classification and arrangement: fifteenth to eighteenth centuries Legislation, literature and practice in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Buildings and readers, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Archives destroyed, protected and reconstructed : nineteenth and twentieth centuries The rise of a profession, nineteenth and twentieth centuries From mutual assistance to international networks, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Conclusion: The value of the historical perspective Afterword to the English edition