Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past

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M.E. Sharpe, 10.10.2013 - 216 Seiten
This visionary and thoroughly accessible book examines how digital environments and virtual reality have altered the ways historians think and communicate ideas and how the new language of visualization transforms our understanding of the past. Drawing on familiar graphic models--maps, flow charts, museum displays, films--the author shows how images can often convey ideas and information more efficiently and accurately than words.
 

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1 Prose and History
3
2 Visualization As an Alternative to Prose
29
3 Visual Secondary Sources
59
4 Virtual History
91
5 History Takes Shape
131
Conclusion
171
Guidelines for Visual Composition in History
175
Bibliography
177
Index
185
About the Author
193
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David J. Staley is Director of the Goldberg Center and Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. He is the author of History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future.

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