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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455801403321

Titolo

Archives and the public good [[electronic resource] ] : accountability and records in modern society / / edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Quorum Books, 2002

ISBN

1-280-91366-5

9786610913664

0-313-00672-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CoxRichard J

WallaceDavid A. <1961->

Disciplina

027

Soggetti

Archives - Social aspects

Archives - Administration

Records - Management

Common good

Public interest

Responsibility

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; EXPLANATION; Archives on Trial: The Strange Case of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers; "A Monumental Blunder": The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada; Information for Accountability Workshops: Their Role in Promoting Access to Information; SECRECY; Implausible Deniability: The Politics of Documents in the Iran- Contra Affair and Its Investigations; The Failure of Federal Records Management: The IRS versus a Democratic Society; Lighting Up the Internet: The Brown and Williamson Collection; MEMORY

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Politics of MemoryTurning History into Justice: The National Archives and Records Administration and Holocaust- Era Assets, 1996- 2001; "They Should Have Destroyed



More": The Destruction of Public Records by the South African State in the Final Years of Apartheid, 1990- 1994; Trying to Write "Comprehensive and Accurate" History of the Foreign Relations of the United States: An Archival Perspective; TRUST; What You Get Is Not What You See: Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems

The Jamaican Financial Crisis: Accounting for the Collapse of Jamaica's Indigenous Commercial BanksThe Anchors of Community Trust and Academic Liberty: The Fabrikant Affair; Records and the Public Interest: The "Heiner Affair" in Queensland, Australia; Index; About the Editors and Contributors