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Title page; Contents; Editors and contributors; Editors' introduction; PART 1 Rethinking histories and theories; CHAPTER 1 Moving the margins to the middle: reconciling 'the archive' with the archives; Into the archive; Turn and (re)turn; Archivists and the archive; Bridging the 'archive' and the archives; Conclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER 2 Organisms, skeletons and the archivist as palaeontologist: metaphors of archival order and reconstruction in context; The metaphors; Skeletons and palaeontologists; Reconstructing the original language; Restoring the ideal cathedral. Structure and historyConclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER 3 'Records in context' in context: a brief history of data modelling for archival description; Terminology; An origin story; Archives are different; Conclusion: from ISAD(G) to EGAD; Notes; References; CHAPTER 4 Mapping archival silence: technology and the historical record; Defining archival silence; Breaking the silences; Creating new silences; The impact of computational processes; Making the silences visible; Erasure and deletion; Addressing the gaps; New strategies and conceptual frames; Conclusion; Notes; References. CHAPTER 5 Hidden voices in the archives: pioneering women archivists in early 20th-century England1The archive in scholarship; Women in the archive; Pioneering women archivists in England; Conclusion; Notes; References; PART 2 Engaging records and archives; CHAPTER 6 The use and reuse of documents by chancellors, archivists and government members in an early modern republican state: Genoa's Giunta dei confini and its archives; Territorial control in early modern Italy: producers, functions and archives; The Genoese Giunta dei confini and its archival duties. The actual shape of the Giunta's archiveThe first shape of the Giunta's archive: the chancellor's role; A new task and a momentous reorganization: the archivists; How self-documentation memory works: an example; The increase in the production of documents and a new method of arrangement; The 18th century: a virtual arrangement of the archives?; The long path towards a cultural use; Different actors, different needs, different uses; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; CHAPTER 7 The bumpy road to transparency: access and secrecy in 19th-century records in the Dutch East Indies. The 1854 decreeReaction in the newspapers; Implications of the decree for former civil servants; Implications of the decree for newspapers; The case of the Sumatra Courant: prosecution of editor-inchief Chatelin; Case Dagblad van Nederlandsch Indië: secret documents on Aceh; Governmental dilemma: to prosecute or not?; Questionable regulation; The unexpected implications of the royal decree; Conclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER 8 Archival ethics and indigenous justice: conflict or coexistence?; Indigenous peoples in Canada; Indigenous knowledge s

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