Writing the on-board: Meiji Japan in transit and transition
| Research Articles Martin Dusinberre, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 02, pp 271-294 Abstract |  |
Anglo-worlds in transit: connections and frictions across the Pacific
‘This strange little floating world of ours’: shipboard periodicals and community-building in the ‘global’ nineteenth century
| Research Articles Johanna de Schmidt, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 02, pp 229-250 Abstract | |
Bodies at sea: travelling to Australia in the age of sail
Indefinite transits: mobility and confinement in the age of steam
| Research Articles G. Balachandran, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 02, pp 187-208 Abstract | |
The ship, the media, and the world: conceptualizing connections in global history
| Research Articles Roland Wenzlhuemer, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 02, pp 163-186 Abstract | |
Editorial – being in transit: ships and global incompatibilities
| Editorial Martin Dusinberre, Roland Wenzlhuemer, Journal of Global History, Volume 11 Issue 02, pp 155-162 Abstract | |
Being an Archivist in Provincial Enlightened France: The Case of Pierre Camille Le Moine (1723-1800)
This article focuses on Pierre Camille Le Moine (1723–1800), an archivist and the author of the first printed French monograph entirely devoted to archives and archival management and description, the influential Diplomatique pratique (1765). The article investigates the strategies that archivists such as Le Moine used to acquire employment. A labour market for archival expertise came into being in mid-eighteenth-century France, and several episodes from Le Moine’s professional life illustrate the mechanisms used both by potential employers and employees to attract interest. Next, the article investigates Le Moine’s understanding of himself as an archivist and his assumptions about the status of archival work, both in relation to his family life and in relation to the wider cultural changes at the time. While able to use enlightened rhetoric and showing at least some superficial acquaintance with the new sociability of the philosophes, Le Moine in many ways remained anchored in a culture more akin to the world of the traditional antiquarian. Clearly, his constant concern for archives gave him a preservationist bias. What made the author most famous was the publication of Le Diplomatique pratique, a serious attempt to combine erudite diplomatics in the Maurist style with a manual for the practicalities of everyday archival life. The last section of the article studies the nature of daily archival experiences in eighteenth-century France, including daily routines regarding the production, content, structure and function of inventories.
Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/46/3/568?rss=1
Monastic Records and the Dissolution: A Tudor Revolution in the Archives?
Administrative reform in the 1530s amounted, in Professor Geoffrey Elton’s words, to a ‘Tudor revolution in government’. The Dissolution of the monasteries and the confiscation of their assets played a major part in this. The need to value, survey, document and exploit the monastic estates transformed government record-keeping, necessitating the creation of new offices – such as the Court of Augmentations – and the adoption of new practices and an expanded bureaucracy. The paper traces the response of the bureaucrats to the challenges to record-management resulting from the Dissolution, and the subsequent history of the monasteries’ records of landholding, a task complicated by the activities of later government archivists.
Quelle: http://ehq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/46/3/480?rss=1