2nd Edition
Computers, Visualization, and History How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past
By David J. Staley
Copyright 2014
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of Figures
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. Prose and History
2. Visualization As an Alternative to Prose
3. Visual Secondary Sources
4. Virtual History
5. History Takes Shape
Conclusion
Appendix: Guidelines for Visual Composition in History
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Biography
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.
