History of Archival Practice

Taylor & Francis

Preface to the English Edition\nIntroduction to the French Edition\n1. The Ancient World\n2. The Classical World: from Greek City States to the Roman Empire\n3. Archives and Archival Practices in Asia and Africa: from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century\n4. Archives and Archival Practices in the Americas up to the Eighteenth Century\n5. In the Chanceries and Muniment Rooms of Medieval Europe, Fifth to Fifteenth Centuries\n6. Buildings and Equipment in Western Europe: Late Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century\n7. The Defining Era: Simancas, the Habsburgs and the Sixteenth Century\n8. Bureaucracy and Archival Centralisation in Early Modern Europe\n9. Being an Archivist in Early Modern Europe\n10. Methods and Techniques for Classification and Arrangement: Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries\n11. Legislation, Literature and Practice in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries\n12. Buildings and Readers, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries\n13. Archives Destroyed, Protected and Reconstructed: n