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Editing Historical Documents

A Handbook of Practice

Michael E. Stevens and Steven B. 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in the introduction, as well as at those who are new to the craft and want to know how to begin work on publishing historical documents of interest to them.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / AASLH
Pages: 264 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7619-8959-2 • Hardback • October 1997 • $138.00 • (£106.00)
978-0-7619-8960-8 • Paperback • October 1997 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
Series: American Association for State and Local History
Subjects: Social Science / Methodology
Michael E. Stevens and Steven B. Burg are both at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
chapter 1 About the Authors
chapter 2 Preface
chapter 3 Introduction
chapter 4 What, Why, How and for Whom?
chapter 5 Selection and Arrangement of Documents
chapter 6 General Principles of Transcription and Proofreading
chapter 7 Transcription: Types of Sources
chapter 8 Presenting the Text
chapter 9 Principles of Annotation
chapter 10 Forms of Annotation
chapter 11 Special Issues of Access and Indexing
chapter 12 Front and Back Matter
chapter 13 Bibliography and Short Titles
chapter 14 Index
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 profession. Editing Historical Documents provides a wonderfully diverse examples of current documentary practice with full citations to the sources used as examples.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


Editing Historical Documents

A Handbook of Practice

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • 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.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / AASLH
    Pages: 264 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
    978-0-7619-8959-2 • Hardback • October 1997 • $138.00 • (£106.00)
    978-0-7619-8960-8 • Paperback • October 1997 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
    Series: American Association for State and Local History
    Subjects: Social Science / Methodology
Author
Author
  • Michael E. Stevens and Steven B. Burg are both at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • chapter 1 About the Authors
    chapter 2 Preface
    chapter 3 Introduction
    chapter 4 What, Why, How and for Whom?
    chapter 5 Selection and Arrangement of Documents
    chapter 6 General Principles of Transcription and Proofreading
    chapter 7 Transcription: Types of Sources
    chapter 8 Presenting the Text
    chapter 9 Principles of Annotation
    chapter 10 Forms of Annotation
    chapter 11 Special Issues of Access and Indexing
    chapter 12 Front and Back Matter
    chapter 13 Bibliography and Short Titles
    chapter 14 Index
Reviews
Reviews
  • 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 profession. Editing 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


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