Knowledge Making: Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy

ISBN-13: 9780367481865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 162 str.

Barbara Brookes; James Dunk

Opis

Paper has been the material of bureaucracy, and paperwork performs functions of order, control, and surveillance. This book explores how those functions transform over time, allowing private challenges to the public narratives created by institutions and governments.

Spis treści

Introduction: Bureaucracy, archive files, and the making of knowledge
1. Asylum case records: fact and fiction
2. Bookkeeping madness. Archives and filing between court and ward
3. Work, paperwork and the imaginary Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, 1846
4. Papering over madness: accountability and resistance in colonial asylum files: a New Zealand case study
5. Paper Soldiers: the life, death and reincarnation of nineteenth-century military files across the British Empire
6. Red ink, blue ink, blood and tears? War records and nation-making in Australia and New Zealand
7. A tale of two bureaucracies: asylum and lunacy law paperwork